Modeling Puzzle that I cannot solve! Any ideas?

[TSuess]

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I want to extrude (A) this profile along (B) this path and then conform the result to © this plane. The result should be a curb following grade. Any thoughts? Is there a good plug-in for this? Any thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks,

Tom

 

Edit: It's the conform part that I'm having trouble with.

[Stephen Thomas]

You will need to conform the spline first before you do the sweep, otherwise your extrusion will get flattened. Maybe one of the glue plugins would be more suitable than conform for this.

[TSuess]

I know that 3dsMax will not allow you to conform a spline. I'll try Glue.

[davistalexander]

but glue will.. or slice the surface, extract a spline and use sweep to generate your loft ....

 

bob's your uncle..

d

Edited July 12, 2011 by davistalexander

[TSuess]

I just googled "Bob's your uncle" I had no clue what you were talking about. I learned something new.

[Dave Buckley]

shapemerge rather than conform?

 

Then simply extract the path from the grade to use as a sweep.

[davistalexander]

I learned something new.

 

We are all here to learn something.

 

Davis

[TSuess]

Dave Buckley, I used shapemerge then extracted the spline. The spline just flattened back out. Lost all info on the Z axis.

[Stephen Thomas]

Try converting to editable poly first before extracting the spline.

[Dave Buckley]

Yeh I didn't explain very well, it definately works, I use it daily

 

this explains it much better http://jasonaddy.blogspot.com/2010/06/using-shapemerge-for-site-modeling.html

[Dave Buckley]

don't know how you can model sites without it

[TSuess]

I'm still missing something! I create my shapemerge and the extract function re-flattens the spline. So I convert to an Editable Poly and the option to extract disappears. Obvioiusly the sweep modifier is not working because it only functions with shapes or splines. What is the critical step that I am missing?

[TSuess]

OK I got it. Use the "border" sub-object of your Editable Poly. Right click on it and choose "Create Shape" Ah-ha.

 

Edit:

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Edited July 12, 2011 by TSuess

[Dave Buckley]

yup, after shapemerge, convert the ground back into editable poly, go to edge sub-object mode, select the edges that have just been merged onto the ground, then create shape from selection

 

that will give you a line that is detached from the ground but sits exactly on top of it where it should do