Precision sculpting

[tkuechle]

I am encountering a strange result trying to either start from a few basic closed line and elements.
When trying to extrude from the precise curves distortion occurs.

If I need to blend to or from precise curves, what is the best approach?

Or is the T-Splines technology a less than ideal choice for this approach?

Thanks in advance.

[jeff_strater]

Hi @tkuechle,

It depends on your goal.  The Sculpt (TSplines) environment is mostly used for non-precise modeling. I would not recommend TSplines for modeling if you want planes and cylinders in your model.  However, if just want to use the precise curves as a starting point, and you intend to highly sculpt your shape from that initial shape, then it may be a good workflow.

To increase the accuracy, you will need to bump up the number of faces used.  The more faces you add, the more accurate the result will be.  It will never be exact.  The other downside of more faces is that the more faces you have in your TSpline, the harder it is to edit.

Here is a screencast showing how to increase the accuracy:

Jeff

[TrippyLighting]

That depends on what end result you are trying to achive. Would you have a visual eplxaing what you want to do ?

[tkuechle]

I am not able to provide a visual explanation at the moment.
It's probably going to be a hybrid solution.
There are two parts:
1. A shape that is the target, it consists of 4 arcs and to 4 lines that create a closed shape, this is the target.
2. A sculpt body, that has an enclosed edge.

I have tried a surface loft, but the resulting surface has a non-tangent edge transition at the sculpt body starting edge.

I haven't tried a solid loft yet, I don't think it will change the result.


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[TrippyLighting · Accepted solution]

A solid loft can definitely change the results as it can provide tangency.

Attempting to  perfectly blend a solid body with a T-Spline is likely not going to be crowned by success.