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How to combine 2 Nurbs Surfaces ?
I have a logo, built out of bezier curves, and I offset the curves to get thikness then I just planar and loft them.
Now that I have seperate Nurbs Surfaces I tried to combine and later convert into Polygons so I could smooth them. But there is an issue:
1. I rebuilt the surfaces in u & v direction.The middle-surface (loft) of the logo I can select the isoparm to make a curve out of it and later I could attach to the side-part. Somehow I can't select the outter Isoparm of the second surface(planar).
2. So I tried to convert the Nurbs Surfaces to Polygons. Then combined all parts of the logo which now are Polygons >edit Mesh>merge Components (in the options I tried threshold from 0.1 - 2000 witch merge for two vertices checked and not. Though no Success).
What else can I do to get one single Object to smooth mesh on it later ? I also tried to merge Edges without any result. The meshes keep staying seperate.
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This the Logo I'm trying to matchCtbram is the best man for this but he might not be around, could you show a shot of the nurbs and what you converted..............dave
This is the loft and planar Surface which I've already rebuilt to attach both together. But I know I can't attach planar and loft Surface. I need to pick the outter Isoparm from each Surface and make a Curve from one of it,then loft and attach to other Surface. But the problem is I can not pick the outter Isoparm from one of the Surfaces. It's not working . What to do?
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I tried Bevelplus but the Surfaces still are separate. Honestly I don't know where I can project curve on a poly surface.
Edit : Now with the Bevelplus and poly output I have one single object. I cleaned up the mesh a little and tried to smooth and the result looks like this
Edit(2): I've also tried to triangulate the outside face which has no divisions but smooth preview and smooth command don't work correct. Any suggestions for this error ?
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Edit:does it have to be pollys
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I don't like Nurbs too. Pollys because you can smooth them. And I finished my work in spite of smoothing issues.I really do not like nurbs, have you tried the create text in the create menu..............dave
Edit:does it have to be pollys
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final composition
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