his pen or whatever it is has a slightly rounded rectangle as top. the curves you used do not correspond to the original form. I think some more angled views (45° etc) would help a lot to make the reconstruction better. very close to impossible to guess the details of the form with these two pics only.
Some parts you saw do not match because they are changes made after the client requested them. The sole you see was made from a soft material, so it is subject to changes. I need to give it a purpose, especially for the undercuts.
I can’t share complex shapes with bevels, textures, patterns, or generally more complex shapes than these, but I assure you that with this method I create much more complex things and I am more precise than any mesh modeling, subd, and I’m speaking as a veteran of mesh modeling. This was just an example for @Petr_Tikhonov to help him understand some basic concepts.
@benedict regarding the photos, I agree with you, 2 photos are not enough to understand the object in its entirety
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@brvdln I’m not doubting your competences nor that you make precise reconstructions. There are incredible people in this forum and I’m sure you’re one of them (telling by the fact that you share your experiences and help others). Just in this case you were not able to make better because you have two photos only, but showed OP an absolutely valid way. I just thought it would be important to point out that OP needs more photos than two to reconstruct more or less correctly the shape.
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I agree with what you’re saying. The reconstruction of those photos, based on the command I showed him (‘curve from cross-section profiles’), wasn’t sufficient to define that reconstruction through curves as complete. In fact, as I think you’ve noticed, some lines/curves should be modified. But honestly, it was Saturday night, I wanted to go grab a beer at the pub with friends, and I didn’t want to spend the evening modeling. I just gave an input to understand where to start with that object in the photo, but from there to calling it finished is another story. I think it’s very important for him to understand the basic concepts of NURBS modeling. Honestly, I don’t make tutorials and wouldn’t have the time, but for @Petr_Tikhonov , it would be ideal to watch a lot of tutorials on Rhino modeling on YouTube
A piece of advice: don’t limit yourself to watching only Rhino tutorials, but also those of CATIA, NX, Alias, Plasticity 3D, because regardless of the software, you should focus on the modeling processes. Personally, I watch tutorials of other software as well, because I can find a modeling dynamic from Alias useful in Rhino, for example.
So @Petr_Tikhonov you went back to the picture modeling method because you failed to align the scan or was the quality of the scan not good enough?
HBar is a Rhino tool to use for local changes to curves and surfaces. It allows accurate changes to a point on a curve or surface while minimizing the area changed.
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Guys you are so incredible and very professional! It is so great to watch you when you share your opinions with each other. I feel like a man who find himself among the billiard masters. and I can barely hold a cue myself. But thanks to you and your help, I hope I can hold the cue tight and finally start playing well! Yes, I watch a lot of Rhino teaching videos. But there no have a lot of answers, that is why i am bothering you. Well, but not all the questions have answers there, that is why I am bothering you. For example, I saw a video about curve from 2 views, after applying it in my case, I have gotten shit. I realized that I was most likely missing the upper projection, which has a third form different from the other two. Well, what to do with this I didn’t find. Thank all of you that you are taking a part in my development!
Post a Rhino file with the curves…
For your case this technique (some sort of very simple silhouette visual hull:
Silhouette-based_3D.pdf (629.8 KB)
) is not exactly applicable, except if you have a motorized table with a stepper motor to take more than just two pictures OR you ‘invent’ an approximative curve for the rounded rectangle on top and modify slowly from there (with history on) like several people suggested. a top picture would help with the most upper curve, but nothing lower. and even then it will be difficult with the visual hull technique because you have concave surfaces.
You said you had a scan of it? in this case you could use the photos AND the scan. the scan can be used to extract a maximum of curves (e.g. by projecting lines on the mesh) and you complete the gaps with the help of photos. You probably won’t be able to orient both very exactly as your photos will always be a bit distorted from the lens.
However, if you got your scan or curves with the photos on a file, please post that. It will be infinitely easier to help you with the file.
No, Martin this is different project. It is a medical probe which is very expansive and has a long cord. That is why I even didn’t scan it. I need to do holder for it, which gonna repeat form of probe. That is why I used the pictures to make a model and then create a holder. I used curve from 2 v, but it wasn’t right idea. Martin about Isopod, it is strange situation. I couldn’t find it in package manager. They said that it is a part of Grasshopper and it is installed there, but it is not.
Hello Ben, thank you for help. I don’t have a scan for this project unfortunately. I have bought a scanner , after I did a scan, I have find out that I don’t know how work with the scan 
and there is no teaching videos about it. But, now I have a scanner and a great desire to understand it and no clue how.
@Petr_Tikhonov I sent you, in addition to the video, examples that I cannot publish here, but I can share them privately. Please make sure to keep them confidential. Thank you.
Those are screenshots. Good luck
Yes you are right! Thank you!!!
Yes, you are right. I have tried to load the file, but it said too big. Thank you!