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Surfacing

kwsauter
1-Newbie

Surfacing

I'm getting into some surfacing, but I'm finding help not very helpful.
Almost all of the explanations of technical surfacing are in text, which
is like giving a reasonably intelligent person a 747 and telling him how
to fly it without getting in the cockpit or showing him anything. Words
just don't do the job. Are there any free tutorials on the internet
that actually SHOW how to create technical surfaces? I figured out the
variable section sweep, but the other surfaces have convoluted names
that don't mean anything (to me, anyway, at least not yet) and the
features are asking for things and I have no idea what they're asking
for. I understand blends because I've done them before, but I'll
sometimes end up with a tumor on my surface, and trying to figure out
grayed out sketches full of dimensions on top of each other is a
nightmare.

Ken Sauter
DRS Reconnaissance Surveillance and Target Acquisition
Infrared Technologies Division
PO Box 740188
Dallas, TX 75374
469-221-5430
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c128
1-Newbie
(To:kwsauter)

Hi Ken and all the other PROs in this community,

just to complete your very helpful list, here's one more:

http://www.me.cmu.edu/academics/courses/NSF_Edu_Proj/Wildfire_short_course/tutorials.htm

Cheers

Matthias.

Hi Ken,

There's my contribution for this list, unfortunatelly there's no surfacing tutorials there, but this chan help others, actually it is not totorials, there is nice books and educational articles, but you must buy it...

Thanks in advance

Guilherme Rocha - Tech support

PLM Solutions do Brasil

“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”



In Reply to Guilherme Rocha:

Hi Ken,

There's my contribution for this list, unfortunatelly there's no surfacing tutorials there, but this chan help others, actually it is not totorials, there is nice books and educational articles, but you must buy it...

Thanks in advance

Guilherme Rocha - Tech support

PLM Solutions do Brasil

“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”


Forgot the link: http://www.sdcpublications.com/

Thanks in advance

Guilherme Rocha - Tech support

PLM Solutions do Brasil

“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”

Ken, One more for the list. It is only a sample chapter from a Surfacing manual, but the exercise shows a very creative way to model the geometry of the old SGI logo. Some Old Timers might rememberSGIand its products (and its logo)from back in the day.
mlocascio
4-Participant
(To:kwsauter)

Ira,



That is pretty cool! That tutorial for the SGI Logo creation is a great way to take in some pretty basic surfacing techniques. Well done!



Michael P. Locascio


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