tThanks in advance,
Split a mold on a curve plane
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Are you trying to split a mesh body or BRep solid body? Your picture shows mesh but you mention you've built a mold which I hope is a native Fusion solid body. You can apply Split Body on a solid and use a curved surface as the splitting tool. For example here I split the cylinder with the curved yellow surface:
If you share your file and explain on a picture exactly along which curved surface you want to split it you'll receive better help.
To Split the mesh body, you need to first convert into solid(BRep).
If you can share the .stl file i can walkthrough the workflow through a screencast video.
Follow below video, This shows a workflow to create from Mesh to BRep
Thank you @dsouzasujay, now I know how to create extrudable profiles from mesh intersection lines.
For practice I tried it out right away.
The real problem remains, how to create a split plane at the outermost contour.
I tried to mark the outermost point of each profile with a point. This resulted in a spline with as few control points as possible.
Is there a better way?
a very useful and underrated commend that will work great with the surfboard and the donut shape is the SILOUETTE SPLIT.
hope that helps 😄
Hi @stiller.design,
For this curved design SILOUETTE SPLIT will not work.
this is how it look when you split
silhouette split works quite well on good quality surfaces. unfortunately the one posted by @wersy isn't a good quality surface-
that fact that the split fails is a good indicator that the approach needs to be modified. If the split is failing, there is a good chance other commands will start to fail down the road also. The gazzion cross section loft approach is almost always going to result in wonky surfacing (reference the hundreds of boat haul posts on this forum). I'm somewhat horrified by the approach @dsouzasujay posted for rebuilding this for that reason. with splines and lofting, less is more.
@laughingcreek wrote:
.... I'm somewhat horrified by the approach @dsouzasujay posted for rebuilding this for that reason. ..
Yep, same here!
While I am no expert in surfacing I knew that much that using several profiles (and fitted curves at that) for loft will give you a bad surface. So seeing such suggestions for recreating the model with above approach I wanted to try with fewer self-drawn splines and thus I did this:
Now again not having enough knowledge and experience in surfacing naturally I didn't make a good one (and it's not even finished), but since I spent some time on it I'm posting in hope that @TrippyLighting or @laughingcreek will take a look and point out my mistakes and how could I have done better.
