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Glenn Karnish  
#1 Posted : Saturday, July 18, 2009 5:08:43 AM(UTC)
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I can not create a smooth surface solid using the guide skin solid function in Shark FX.

Any suggestions?

File attached as example.

GK
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Steve.M  
#2 Posted : Saturday, July 18, 2009 9:26:49 AM(UTC)
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Hi GK,

The curves you are using are not smooth, so that is being translated to the surface. Try to keep the curves smooth and with minimal control points. I have quickly redrawn the curves and made a Guide skin surface as example (I only have VC pro installed, so do not have the Guide skin solid tool. but the output should be the same).


- Steve
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Glenn Karnish  
#3 Posted : Saturday, July 18, 2009 9:03:06 PM(UTC)
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Steve, I had to do some clean up work to get this to work. Should be a good example on how to get this feature to work nicely.

I changed all the imported curves to Bezier, changed the vector directions on the horizontal curves to be consistent in one direction, joined these curves with a small tolerance .0001.

Attached is the file.

GK
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Glenn Karnish  
#4 Posted : Sunday, July 19, 2009 10:45:29 AM(UTC)
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Steve, another example created in Shark FX of a complex bottle shape. Had to do some surfacing to get the shape of the top section of the bottle to look nice. I changed the curves at the top section to Interpolate Splines and made a Surface with Guides.
The neck finish is a STEP file import from Rhino 3D.
I'm working with build 731 of FX. Going to download the update as soon as I can.

Question. Is the beta 5.5 version of Shark FX worth a try. Or should I wait for the final release of the update?

GK
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Steve.M  
#5 Posted : Wednesday, July 22, 2009 7:28:21 AM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: Glenn Karnish Go to Quoted Post
Question. Is the beta 5.5 version of Shark FX worth a try. Or should I wait for the final release of the update?



Hi GK,

Go with the latest build 838 I would not class it as a Beta, it is a bug fix/tweak release.

- Steve
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