Non uniform shape (surface bowel)

[Anonymous]

Newbie and found a shape I would like to expand upon. The attached image is from a template given to me. What is the best way to create this shape? Mesh body, t-spline, solid?    I would like to learn how he did it and to make my own shapes as well. Thank you in advance - Julie 

 

[laughingcreek]

Could be done with surface lofts or with t-splines.  I personally would probably use lofting.   nether approach will be easy if your starting from zero.

[a_antonov · Accepted solution]

In the Surface environment, you can start with an extrusion of the profile, and then create the Patch with edge conditions: Tangent or Curvature. After that, the starting extrusion can be removed.

[TrippyLighting · Accepted solution]

Don’t ever use a (boundary) patch if the geometry can be created with a loft!

[TrippyLighting]

I designed this using T-Splines, but in retrospect it is probably much easier to do this with surface tools.

 

[Anonymous]

That is really great! That is what I have been contemplating too!