I started to do this, then I sort of got bored with it. I rarely use the Warp command, so I wanted to mess it. It seems like I could not get the round marqee small enough to make a nice round warp shape and keep the edges flat, so not sure what I am doing wrong.
try this:
Use the CTRL key to select the 4 drag points.
The problem I have with the warp tool is the lack of control for the dragging offset.
There is no way to duplicate the drag distance exactly on a second feature.
Here is one to play with. It is somewhat tolerant of tweaking the shape of the cups.
Also has successful curvature controlled Boundary Blend for the corners.
One other method to look at. It has a few more restrictions but better control over the profile. The sweep fails if the slopes are too steep.
It is possible to create the pattern by sweeping a curve along a curve. The enclosed example is built using two planar curves and a sweep. The second curve is swept along the first with a constant normal direction. This geometry is using two sinusoidal functions. The curves were created by equation where both sinusoids are expressed in parametric equations. You can change the shape by manipulation of the equation parameters. This is a single quilt that can be trimmed and matched to an arbitrary perimiter shape. Creo 2 model enclosed for reference.
The offet is there, it is just not easliy visualized. I used Antonius D.'s model to grab an image to make this clear as he has a more complete model.
The "offset" is achieved by trimming the quilt on a bias. Antonius has a valid solution. I am showing in my example how to employ equation driven curves using periodic functions as an alternative to get the "wave" quilt. You should be able to employ graphs to control the quilt shape as another option.
That's the neat thing, Tom; with both waves being exactly the same, there is a perfectly flat square for each cell. However putting the radius on the corner requires a boundary blend to get it back to the same elevation. Turns out this is one that Creo doesn't mind developing as a curvature blend.
