Splitting, or Cutting one Nurbs Surface into 2 independent pieces ?

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# 1 02-08-2003 , 06:02 PM

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Splitting, or Cutting one Nurbs Surface into 2 independent pieces ?

Hello friends !

Well, I want to cut, or split this one Nurbs surface into 2 independent pieces - hmm, but the surfaces should not change the mesh. The red line shows you the border where I want to cut.

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thank you friends for every little help,
bernhard

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# 2 02-08-2003 , 06:12 PM

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select the needed isoparms and Edit Nurbs > Detach Surface

-Mike
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# 3 02-08-2003 , 06:37 PM

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Great, it´s really great Mike - it works sooo good.
Damm, you are really the best master mike.....

thank you soo much,
bernhard

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# 4 02-08-2003 , 07:04 PM

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huch

Ups, sorry mike, the method worked fine withe the little wings, but if I will try this on my big wings, it doens´t work.

Iwill get always inadvertently stuff on my big wings.

hmm, what can that prolbem bee ?

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# 5 02-08-2003 , 07:14 PM

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what kind of "stuff"?

-Mike
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# 6 03-08-2003 , 12:07 AM

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trimming tool ?

Hello master mike !

It seems to bee, that the detaching on the surface doesn´t work, because this surface was trimmed before.

damm, and trimmed surfaces can´t be attached - so I think it will bring me the same problem with the detaching.....

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# 7 19-08-2003 , 08:34 AM

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that´s why i stopped using trims ... well not exactly that, but they are so difficult to handle, most times you do yourself a favour in modelling it in a proper way instead of trimming ... maybe im talking rubbish, still newb ... user added image