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Have a look at Plotmaker on the following websites.

Aeronaut http://www.aeronautauto.com/Index.html

- Have a VW add on for tensile structures and shade sails (go to the applications button and download the PDF pages).

- Also have a look at http://www.aeronautauto.com/pages/vectorworks.html and http://www.aeronautauto.com/pages/plotmaker.html

Sailscience http://www.sailscience.com/software.html

Have details on Mac programs for sails and the like, including Plotmaker.

TouchCAD http://www.touchcad.com/index.html

Also appears to have tensile structure like capabilities which may be of interest to you.

[ 01-10-2005, 09:27 PM: Message edited by: mike m oz ]

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It is possible, by fixing some control points and estimating the flow of the fabric to define the wires using Nurbs Curves with a reasonable degree of credibility.

Then use these to these to Loft with No Rail.

I expect this is what you are doing already.

You can further refine your Nurbs Surface using the 3d modeling tools.

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Blind Expert,

I had to do something similar with a tensile object using BCD's approach. The one piece of advice I can offer is how you look at the curves. My understanding is that in most cases, the tensioned cables will take on a catenary curve (disclaimer - I am purely looking at it from a visual perspective and in no way qualified beyond that). It turned out to give a fairly accurate results in my case.

Below is a screen capture of my drawing (? David Atkins Enterprises).

And the result (not my photo, just from a web search) - http://sarahandtim.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/vancouver-olympics-opening-ceremonies-snowboard-in-the-air.jpg

We were all surprised by the accuracy of the end result.

Kevin

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