cpbender Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 I started what seemed to be simple project -- modelling a piece of folded paper. I need the 'paper' in the model to have a thickness of 1mm. I created 3D polys for each surface, also tried nurbs curves converted into surfaces, but adding thickness seems challenging. I tried using the shell command, which gives thickness to individual surfaces, but since the model is made up of many surfaces at different angles to each other, the shell command doesn't create smooth intersections. The file should be attached; any help would be appreciated. Quote Link to comment
Jonathan Pickup Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 add the 3D polys together (using Add Solid), then shell solid Quote Link to comment
Jonathan Pickup Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 your polys do not add together nicely, so I was wondering how you made them. I tried to copy your folded paper and found that if you use NURBS and Loft surface, you can make a folded paper shape that you can shell. Quote Link to comment
cpbender Posted August 19, 2012 Author Share Posted August 19, 2012 Thanks, Jonathan! The file I had attached was individual NURBS curves combined into surfaces, but Shell creation would fail after using Add Solids to join them. I had also tried making 3d polys, but they wouldn't join at all with Add Solid. But your NURBS/Loft Surface approach did result in surfaces that I could Add and Shell. Not sure I understand why the lofted NURBS surfaces worked when surfaces created in different manners didn't work... but thanks again. Quote Link to comment
Jonathan Pickup Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 my method was very quick Quote Link to comment
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