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boundary blend

Instead of using boundary blend,try the feature Conic
Surface and N-Sided patch and simply select the curves one
by one.You will get the desired geometry.
Make sure that all the curves are connected to each other.
No need of creating a mesh of curves.

This command is available under advanced menu options.
#Insert>Advanced>Conic Surface and N-Sided Patch.
Select N-sided option and continue.
 
Hi Jacek,
That looks like a great resource for surfacing tutorials.
How do I access the other tutorials on there?
 
I've never had much luck with n-sided patches, so I gave this a try. Works well, but all by itself it doesn't produce the 'dome' he shows in his image, in fact it's actually concave.

Adding in the cross curves and using an N-sided patch on 1/4 of it is better, but the tangency creates an odd bump along the curved side.

I split it in 8ths and created it with a boundary plend and that is better, but now slightly faceted. It's also a rather large file for some reason.

I've attached a zip file of the 3 parts in WF5. I had to suppress some features to get the file size down.



2012-01-04_111135_n-sided_patch.zip

Edited by: dgs
 
Same.


The tangencies work but patch to patch has a little hump. I am not sure if it is because of my splines...


View attachment 5508


N-sides are a little hard to work with, especially with the old interface limitations.
 
ok, just to announce a little info - my page has been updated recently, and all tutorials should be available directly from proe-warsztat.com now.
 
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