Draping a surface

[Hunter B]

IS this the correct place to ask for help on draping a surface?

So I try to drape a pipe frame of something like a flipchart and no matter what I do the drape surface tool just doesn't do anything correctlly. It works just fine if I want to cover a box. but open it up into a frame structure and I get a drape but it doesn't match the object. I even use the"folding chair" object and try to drape that and it doesn't work either.

Is there something I can do to get it to work???

[Guest]

Try increasing the U and V vertices to 50, 80, 100, or more - you may want to play w/ different values to see how the values interpret the drape.

After the nurbs surface is created, it will need to be nudged a little to have it send to the surface and not intersect with the actual object.

[Jonathan Pickup]

i don?t think I would use the drape surface to create what you are talking about. Why not draw the cross section and use the loft with one rail?