topic Re: Creating surfaces from curves in 3ds Max Modeling Forum

Creating surfaces from curves

mariustipa — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 11:46:23 GMT

I need to create a surface from the curves attached bellow. In the next stage I will place a semisphere on the top of the horizontal circle. The entire surface will be like a church dome. Does someone have the slightest ideea?

I have tried with NURBS but I have zero experience about NURBS ... Is this the right way to approach?

Re: Creating surfaces from curves

truckexpert — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 13:18:21 GMT

You could create a sphere, and slice it with four planes on the 4 side and two planes for the top and bottom

Re: Creating surfaces from curves

leeminardi — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 13:48:31 GMT

Adding to @truckexpert 's excellent suggestion, center a sphere (within Hemisphere set to 0.5) of radius 1.414 (square root of 2) at 0,0,0 then position the slice modifiers at x=1, y = 1, another at x = -1, y = -1. and a third at z = 1.

Re: Creating surfaces from curves

mariustipa — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 15:33:30 GMT

But I also need the 4 side walls. Now we have 4 gaps there.

Re: Creating surfaces from curves

leeminardi — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 17:02:09 GMT

Create a hemisphere of radius 1.414 located at 0,0,0.
Create a box with a width of 2, length 2, and height 1
Use Proboolean Intersect to get the final shape.

Re: Creating surfaces from curves

mariustipa — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 08:33:02 GMT

Seems to be the solution. Thanks!