I’ve been using Rhino for a long time as a hobbyist and have purchased Rhino 8 sometime ago. Hours and hours I’ve spent over the years watching videos, tutorials and workshops but sometimes the “approach” eludes me. Making model jets I usually get around, more often than not they’re cigars…
What I would like to have help with is the approach for modelling the fuselage. Where to begin?
I’ve attached a duplicate from my model, where I’ve started to “catch” the contour curves and some cross-sections. The cross-sections are interpreted from the kit that I have. Eventually I’d like to 3D print it.
it looks like you are on track, just finish it off? you can also close the section curves and loft the entire thing in one go and trim the sections that have to be more straight later on.
or close your section curves with blend curve underneath then join and RebuildCrvNonUniform position all the arrows on top then use loft on all curves with option loose, you can add more sections to gain more control
here i used TweenCurves to interpolate the sections you already had
turn on history and loft with option loose, maybe use the rebuild option. after that you can make adjustments to the sections (position, shape) to make it fit as needed it will update the loft.
that happens just bump the topic till somebody sees it, there are many topics running through so these get easily flushed down.
if you turn on history before you tween you can still adjust the blue curves here later in position and shape and all the tweened curves will change updating right up to loft which enables you go get a lot of control later on. just dont touch any of the black curves here directly at this stage till you really need it or the history will unlink for the tween part and history will only remain for loft in general
I know this isn’t the same type of airplane that you’re talking about, but I think the modeling approach used in this tutorial could apply here. It’s a very good tutorial and introduction to Sub-D modeling. It’s worth a watch IMO.
Thank you so much for your reply. Those are suggestions I can try and experiment with. I didn’t know about the history function.
I did not consider at all to make full shapes and straighten later. A new perspective!
I didn’t want to come across as impatient but I appreciate the suggestion.
I will have a look at that. I never tried SubD, maybe I’m a bit hesitant to learn something new while I feel I need more control with the existing techniques I know.
just bump the topic till somebody sees it, there are many topics running through so these get easily flushed down.