Questions tagged [nurbs-surface]
A NURBS Surface is a mathematical model representing a surface. Use this tag for any questions pertaining to the "Surface" Object type in blender.
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Creating a smooth spherical surface
I am designing some parts for 3D printing and I have been banging my head for several days already trying to accomplish the following:
I have a "frame" that looks like this:
I am trying to create a ...
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Nurbs Paths Not Rendering Texture Correctly
When I Render My Nurbs Path The Colour Doesn't Render Fully But In The Render Preview View It Is Filled Ive Tried Different Lighting Techniques And Other Render Presets.
I Need Help On What I Could ...
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Can we extract just the outside surface of a 3D model?
I am new to using Blender and wanted to know if this software can serve my purpose before jumping into using it.
I have CT(Computed Tomography)-scanned an object and exported the mesh into a PLY file....
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Create Spline from Formula (Vector Valued Function) [duplicate]
In Cinema 4D, there is a formula spline whose shape is dictated by a vector valued function. This allows me to create very unique shapes very easily, such as the following:
I am not sure if there is ...
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Curves: how to make circular shapes within curves
Is there a way to make a "perfect" circle with the points of my nurbs circle (the ones around the cursor)?. I tried "as sphere" and "bend angle", but the results are not very satisfactory.
Ideally I'...
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How to make a Morph Object follow the surface of a model
I'm trying to create a character with admittedly unorthodox eyes and pupils.
What I'm attempting to do is make the pupils in 3D and them change their shape using morph targets, a little like the 3D ...
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How to Join NURBS CIRCLE
I was trying to do this simple tutorial but when I tried to join the circles but blender never show the Join button.
Any one can teach me how to solve this?Thanks so much.
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Drawing a nurbs curve along a surface
I think I've asked this question once before, but I am not sure if anyone out there has an answer.
My question is, is there away that I could draw a Nurbs Curve right along a surface?
As in the Nurbs ...
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extrude Nurbs paths horizontally
When I create a NURBS path then extrude it in the geometry settings it extrudes up. How do I get it to extrude horizontal
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Particles don't follow curve
I'm trying to create a traffic simulation with the particle system. I want to create a lot of cars that walk along a path...I'm just following this tutorial :
The problem is that when I setup the ...
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How to extract side-view outline (e.g. top view) of a 3D object to 2D surface?
I want to make some 2D version of 3D particles. I used to shrinkWrap the 3D mesh to a plan, and draw NURBS curve manually along the boundary. However it is too time-consuming!
Is there any easy way ...
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Sampling points of a nurbs surface using projections
I'm trying to sample a nurbs surface given certain constraints. Basically I'm trying to reproduce in 3D the following 2D situation. I don't know how to do this in 2D either so I need suggestions ...
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Can we smooth selected faces to make curved surface more precise?
Is there a way to smooth selected faces to make curved surface more precise?
This kind of mathematical accuracy is of course easier achieved by using nurbs oriented workflow, but it could be handy to ...
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How to make evenly spaced pillars for a roller coaster track?
I am a beginner in Blender. I am making a roller coaster and I want to put an array of stands under my roller coaster tracks. To do that, I used DupliFrame on my pillars, parented them to my NURBs ...
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Convert a Normal Curve to NURB with less control points/Curve points
I have a Human spine cross section image and I am trying to develop it's 2D surface model in blender as I feel its more flexible than CAD design software( Solid Works, Solid Edge etc).
I have data ...
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Join multiple NURBS circles without collapsing circles/losing positions?
I'm trying to join and fill multiple NURBS circle surfaces (similar to the YouTube video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kGmh9r6pkE) but when I join my circles, they collapse into one circle, as ...
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How to remove lines from wireframe…?
I made a surface and added a wireframe modifier on top of that. I want to remove just horizontal lines from the mesh. How can I do that..? Please help. I have highlighted it in the picture below.
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How can I make this surface in blender…?
How can I make a surface like this....? I made this using nurbs in maya. Please Help. Thank You :)
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Joining Nurbs Circles?
I was trying to do this simple tutorial but when I tried to join the circles these just smashed into one and I can't even move them along the z axys.
Thanks in advance!.
EDIT: Adding de blend file, ...
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Distorted mesh when I use a bevel object on Nurbs curve vs. Bezier curve
I have a series of objects that I have procedurally generated use Bezier or Nurbs curves for which I then attached a Bevel and Taper object.
When I use a Bezier curve the objects come out correctly. ...
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Is it possible to have mesh with NURBS editable surface
I have a mesh that has flat top and bottom and I want to know if it's possible to edit the top and bottom just as if they were NURBS surfaces.
I have an example cube and two NURBS surfaces:
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How do I select Edges?
I apologize in advance for asking such a beginners question, and I assume this will come down to my view/window being wrong.
I used Blender a few years back, and I am familiar with how shapes work ...
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How to bring 3d effect in surface?
Can anyone tell me how this surface looks like 3d which covers red sphere and blue cylinders.
see the blend file here
https://blend-exchange.giantcowfilms.com/b/3570/
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Conversion of fine organic surface mesh to a few patches of NURBS
Note: cross-posted in stackoverflow as well. Would this be OK?
I have a very fine mesh (STL) of some organic shapes (e.g., a bone) and would like to convert it to a few patches of NURBS, which will ...
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Automatically draw hidden portions of paths with dashed lines
This is a follow up to a question of mine on TeX stackexchange site.
Is it possible in blender to have an open surface that would render as opaque but the render would show automatically, depending ...
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Q Automated surface generation?
I have a NURBS surface definitions (i.e. the control node positions) but want to automate the generation of the surface in Blender.
Currently I generate a flat regular grid of control nodes by ...
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Bend object with curves modifier [duplicate]
I'm trying to make Wheat
How to bend this object without affecting target size?
When I add this Object in Curve modifier with NurbsPath in object section
my object changes sizes and moves, looking ...
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how can I make a mesh from curves?
I'm trying to mesh a rear wing of a vintage car.
I've done some Bezier curves and converted them into mesh. I have the same amount of vertices, so I should be able to connect everything together but I ...
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How to bend nurbs surfaces
I modeled a simple flat square, adding thickness by extruding.
Now I want the Surface to not be flat but a Kind of buldged.
How do I accomplish that?
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How to get a straight Nurbs
I have added a nurbs curve. Im extruding it in the L direction and i do not need that curve shape. On the red axis its going straight but when i turn to green axis it makes a curve. With the orange ...
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how would you texture map a rope?
I would like to make a rope for a game object (so it should be fairly low poly). I know how to divide a cylinder into segments (K key with Z key) and form it around a nurbs path.
for my game engine (...
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Can't fit plane to nurbs path to create a race track
I'm new here and I'm making a racing track for Assetto Corsa.
I don't know what's exactly happening, but something doesn't let me to apply a Curve modifier to a plane.
I'll explain myself: to make the ...
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Mesh curve to Nurbs
I'm new here. I'm want ask you if there is the possibility to transform the curve that comes from subdivision surface (shown in the photo) in NURBS curve.
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why is my displacement map not sharp?
The displacement map is an animation of the letters being engraved in the metal. The animation itself works just fine. The only problem is the edges of the letters. How can i get them straight instead ...
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Nurb Interface Tool question - lost my way
When I add a Nurbs curve now I get the wrong icon and no hairy catapillar. Whaa, What did I do?
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How can I subdivide a Surface NURB without affecting the shape?
Say, I lay down a Surface NURB Circle in Blender. It has 4 control points, and it is circular. Now, if I Subdivide it to add more control points, it starts to become a square. The more I subdivide ...
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How can I add control points to a NURBS surface
How can I add control points to the default 16 control points of a NURBS surface?
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Aligning tangents in connecting NURBS-curves
I want to smoothly connect two NURBS-curves. To that purpose, how can I align their common vertex tangents? Right now, they're at an angle (see picture). I could do it manually (on sight), put that ...
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Getting exactly circular/rounded NURBS corners
How can the weight of a NURBS curve/surface be calculated such that corners are exactly circular? It has something to do with the angle of the corner, but that doesn't seem to be displayed anywhere.
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Surface cannot be created with nurbs curves by pressing F key [duplicate]
I followed several tutorial to create a nurbs curve, and duplicate it in edit mode. Of course I pressed A key to select all points and F key to create surface. But there was no surface be created, a ...
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What are surfaces and metaballs used for?
I use very often meshes and curves, because I know what they are used for (meshes for renders and curves for follow curves). But I actually don't use surfaces and metaballs. What are surfaces and ...
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NURBS surface from branching curves?
I'm looking for a way to do something very similar to the technique using the skin modifier, but with NURBS. In other words, I'm looking for a way to do something similar to a convex hull, but not ...
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Why do I get large bevels on a curve with such a small bevel object?
I am bevelling a simple circle with another simple circle and as you can see from the screen shot below I have to make the bevel circle incredibly small and I still end up with a very large cross ...
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what does manifold mean in context of surface building [duplicate]
This question is different as I seek to know a particular context of this subject i.e. wrt 3d printing.
It is important for me to know what this means.
" So, projection onto the first coordinate ...
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Rounded wireframe with big cells
I'm pretty new to Blender and I'm trying to create a perfectly round NURBS sphere. I need a wireframe of this sphere with big cells (like on the image below) but I also need curved (sic!) not straight ...
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Create a Nurbs Circle Surface using python
I am trying to achieve the following post
I see doing this two ways.
Create a large circle and small circle and fill the inbetween.
Perform the same steps as the GUI programmatically, create NURBS ...
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a single face in an object is shiny in solid mode and showing a strange gradient color in render
This is a door that I'm making. There is nothing special about it. It somehow has one face (A) that is different than others. I've tried flipping the normal, deleting the face and remaking the face. I ...
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Apply modifier to multiple objects? [duplicate]
I'm using Blender 2.70. How do I apply the same modifier to multiple objects? None of the answers I searched for work, listed below:
Apply modifier to one object, then select all, make applied object ...
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Hard edges and curved surfaces
I'm quite new to Blender(and 3D graphics in general) and I can see that there is only 2 kinds of 3d surfaces, meshes and NURBS, meshes only have hard edges, while NURBS have only got curved surfaces, ...
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Blender 3d NURBS Path objects move
I was trying to create train tracks using NURBS path and everything looks to be great till I press play.
As soon as I play it in Blender Game Engine, the objects are no longer merged and have a clear ...
