AST Tutorial : Facetting a light parabola

[Pete81]

Yeah, like andrei did show this can be done in Rhino too and quite easily also.


Great tutorial TRK :buttrock:

[motojc]

Thank you very much for the tut RainKnight. I never knew move CV button with NUV option exsited!! sure comes handy.

However, i don't know why you prepare the surface like you did (duplicate curve than surface), I could not find all functions you mentioned so I went for my usual ways:

1. after you have the desired isoparm count, use Surface Edit>Create CurveOnSurface>Project Normal to get trim lines from isoparm lines.
2. use Trim>Trim Divide option, select shrink surface option, which I always use in trimming, this will not give you history but will give you a smaller trimmed surface, when it's square like this example, it works just fine, I suppose when its some other shape, you will use Trim Convert to go over hsapes once.

just an alternative way unless I missed something.

[The Rain Knight]

hi motojc,

thx for sharing...which version of AST are you using ? cos if i remember well the Divide option and Shrink option doesn't exist in 13.x versions....

[Spaceland]

mecha, for the last time plz stop saying such things about rhino or other apps...i know many companies who are using Rhino every day to design new products and this is real good.
If you don't consider it as a professional too, at least consider this a affordable mean to learn nurbs before getting further with other tools like AST or Icem etc...
and plz don't argue about this here. thx.

Hi there,

I was just reading the thread and i do agree with you, i see that the guy has been banned but i can understand why. I am a Cinema 4D user, i tried Maya, Softimage and others but for Rhino, i can`t wait to get a newer version, last one i use was version 2 and i do love NURBS.

Anyway, very nice tutorial about the car. Love it. I see Rhino is still amazing.

[motojc]

why would thy do sth like that? A 12er wants to know. Now i know why I did not find some of the buttons you mentioned... what's your rebuild setting? I tried but it did not shrink surface for me.