Forum: Carrara


Subject: Newbie Lathe Problem - Part II

vaxling opened this issue on Mar 08, 2000 ยท 3 posts


vaxling posted Wed, 08 March 2000 at 9:15 PM

Attached Link: http://www.fnol.net/~eannuzzi/carrara/puck2.zip

Is there a way to make the inner parts of a torus lathed object to look less square? Thanks, Steve

willf posted Wed, 08 March 2000 at 11:23 PM

Make a copy: Jump ino spline modler & re-start object from scratch. Go to "Geometry" & set surface fidelity to around 1200 or so. Next, "center selection". Now go to "extrusion/torus" & set at approx .75, this will give you a better object. Play around with the settings for fidelity & torus distance to axis & maby you can get better. Also, go to "back" view & try dragging the two control points up & down (closer/further) from axis center. What was happening in your last model was that the axis centerline (bottom line) was negativly multiplying over itself and not meeting at center.


willf posted Wed, 08 March 2000 at 11:36 PM

P.S.- I don't mean to re-draw your cross section, go to "geometries" pull-down window & hilight "re-start object from scratch". This should maintain your original profile for the shape.