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Modifying NURBS
I'm trying to do some simple things but can't figure out how. I read the help files and MAYA tuts, but couldn't understand what they were doing. So please help me.
There's two things i'm trying to do:
1) Round the corners of the three inner cubes.
2) Then subtract out the three inner cubes from the big cube. To make holes.
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1) your boxes.
2) select all faces for the top box and subdivide twice.
3) select the perimeter faces.
4) Choose polygons>Smooth.
5) Duplicate your box.
6) select all three top boxes and choose Polygons>Combine.
7) Select the big box first, then the three boxes. Choose Polygons>Boolean>Difference.
I hope this helps a little. Who knows, you might already know how to do this with polygons, but are experimenting with nurbs. Maybe someone can give you the answer on how to do this all with nurbs.
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That did help. But is there a way to increase the radius of the corners?
Also, I'm also still learning polygons. I was using NURBS b/c I was able to adjust the radius of the curves and couldn't figure it out with the polygon.
Anyway, That was Exceptional Help.
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1) select these vertices.
2) scale them out like this.
3) select these faces.
4) and smooth.
5) select all faces.
6) and smooth again.
The seventh image is a slightly different version that has more roundness to it. I was able to do this by subdividing the faces select in image 3, then scaling the newly created vertices outward, which took some time. After I scaled them out, I used snap to grid to align them perfectly, then smoothed the outside faces. (as done in image 3 and 4) After that, I smoothed the whole object and got what you see in image 7. Anyway, like I said, I'm not sure if this is what you mean. Hope this helps some.
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What I'm looking for is the sides to be smooth also.
Example:
-This is what I have now.(Was done using NURBS. I don't know how to subtract objects using NURBS.)
BEFORE
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(Notice how the curve is larger.)
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Here's what I have done so far.
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If I remember correctly, it is slightly different than the poly-boolean.
I think you must first activate the tool, and THEN pick your two surfaces for the boolean operation.
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