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# 1 13-09-2006 , 07:49 AM
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oil engine from the 'old' days

im trying to make one of those old oil engines. i want to animate it and use particles ect, lighting, blah blah.

i made (as usual) a heap of small snaps which i think say more than i do.

start with the CV curve tool
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that was the curve i used to make this as a revolved surface m select the curve and (surfaces.., revolve)

i used a lot of curve pionts to make the ridge in it
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same deal with the base, went in and changed the profile a little to my taste before i revolved the CV curve
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and now i got this
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same for the chimney.., a revolved surface
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but now for something slightly differant.., i created a nurbs cylinderm making sure there was no caps on in the options
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i adjusted the size by eye (the whole thing is by eye except for the photo I'm looking at) and pushed it into the body of the engine so i can fillet it later
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and i right clicked to get the context menu and selected 'hulls.'
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i selected the seond row from the bottom and scaled it into the 'valve' (the nurbs cylinder)
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then selected the row below and 'shift' selected the row above and scaled them both together in 'Y'
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until i got a ridge like this
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i closed off the top by selecting the top hull and scaling it in
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until it looked like this
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of course with nurbs one needs to be aware of something called tangency and so in the side view i se;ected the top hull and ...
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pulled it down until it was at the same level as the hull below it
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