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# 1 09-09-2006 , 06:14 PM
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nurbs help

hello - I'm trying to get my head around nurbs and I am working through the learning maya 7 foundation tutorial where you are building a robot head. Basically I have to build a piece that looks like this:
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The picture below shows what I have so far. How do I create the flat surface which connects the inner isoparm highlighted in yellow? I have tried duplicating the isoparm as a curve and cutting it up and trying loft, extrude and boundary with no success.

Any ideas? help!
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ok - I did it. I duplicated the isoparm as a surface curve, cut the curve in two and then lofted. I must have been doing something wrong before.

thanks anyway.
 
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