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Thanks everyone. Ok I've done the above with a combination of all those. With the central blade and the loft tool, what are the steps I should be taking? Do I create the top as a polygon (thick part of the blade), then a single polyline for the bottom (sharp part of the blade) and then loft between them? Also, one question regarding printing from vectorworks? What are the standard practices if I wanted to print my model on A3 paper with 4 angles on it? Cheers Charlie

Thanks Mike! I was planning on doing knives with a bit more complicated handle, but I can just do the first example and that will work fine. Thanks Charlie

G'day, I'm a student learning Vectorworks in my first semester. We've been asked to model a knife block, not unlike this one: http://www.comparestoreprices.co.uk/images/jo/john-lewis-knife-block-set-6-piece.jpg I've done the block okay, just struggling with the knife handle. That's what I'm asking about. When you have a curved handle like this (the black part), what is the best way to model it? I tried making contours of the shape, converting them to NURBS, moving them along the Z-axis and then using the loft tool, but that didn't work. What would be the best way to model something with curves like that? Thanks, Charlie