cage modeling?
 

hi,
how can i model the top side of this cage?any suggestion?
thnx,
simalden

bit tricky and fiddly, but i would use curves.

Go into all views and use one of your side or front views.

Then create a 2 linear cv curve. Matching exactly where the wire is.

The create a NURBS Circle and position it at the top or bottomw of your curve.
(The circle is the radius of the wire, and the cruve is the length)

Select the circle then shift select the curve, then under modelling go to > Surfaces > Extrude. tick the box

At the bottom, either keep output to NURBS or poly's up to you.

Delete the curve and circle and your done.



Duplicate it loads and you have a cage.


Thats how i would do it anyway

Either with extruded curves and then the duplicate with the number of instancesround an axis (as mr Pix suggested) or, depending on the level of detail, make it solid then use a transparancy map created form the UV's of the area in question and apply that to it.

Cheers

cage modeling?
 

thanx for the clue of the next step:) but my problem is different.i wrote it on the picture.

whats wrong with it?

cage modeling?
 

top of the cage is a lofted surface.first i drawed horizontally curves and then lofted the surfaces
but there are gaps between the lofted surfaces and whole cover doecn't look smoothly and nice.that's why
i thought that it can be another way to model this part of cage.

thans

I'm just curious, if you render that out do you still see the problems your describing. Sometimes nurbs have that problem when your working with them, but it sorts itself out in the render.

looks like its in polys, cant u convert it to polys if not, then combine and merge all the verts if needed,....then smooth it wen ur done?