lofting CV curves

[Flo]

if you lofted those curves correctly (should be a big deal :), you should see a nrubs surface.
maybe check if surface display is turned on ....
if you still have the problem, please post a picture so we can see whats up there ..

Flo

[drj]

here are the two curves selected before the loft action

[drj]

Here is the dialog box of the loft..reset tools to default

[drj]

and here is my result

[Flo]

is this what u want to do ?>

http://www.flo3d.com/temp/loft.jpg

Flo

[drj]

Yes, I believe it is what i want to do.
It looks like the two curves you have lofted are just the arches? In the book i'm reading through it had us start in the lower left corner of the wall draw the left side, top, right side, and then on the bottom we went up and did all the arches. After done duplicated wall and moved it slightly away, choose both walls and loft..which the books shows will only give the bottom parts of the arches. Then you go and choose the two duplicated walls and do a planar action on them. (?don't know about that...haven't gotten that far yet...still trying to figure out why i'm getting odd results). It has us using the CV Curves Tool to draw the wall.

[Flo]

u can do thing in many ways, though i think this books shows you a pretty complicated workflow.
as u see, i just created 2 planes, projected the curves onto them. lofted the projected curves on surface and trimmed the planes.

if you need a bottom part, simply select the end isoparms of the lofted surface (the one between the 2 curves) and loft again.

but as always, there are many ways to do it.check them all out, and use the one you like best.

happy modeling,
Flo

[drj]

your way does sound like a much nicer workflow...thanks for the help

[drj]

What seems to be weird after reading everyone's replies is that if i try to do what the book is asking me by making a wall(CV curve) with the the three arches included it doesn't work somehow, but if I tried what Flo has done with one arch and one wall, the actions the book mentions does loft correctly....is there any reason why more arches would not make the loft work?...as the book describes, by putting three CV points in the hard corners to make the curves tighter...can this cause a problem with all the points in the same place?
just a few simple quesions from the newbie.

[dmcgrath]

One thing a lot of the books don' t tell you is to delete the history on the curves after you rebuild them, or close them, etc. And if you have duplitace with instancing on, it might be causing the problem also. I just basically drew what you have there with using only one curve. Then I closed the curve, duplicated it, deleted history on both curves and then lofted and planar. No trim surfaces either, although it's okay since the object doesn't deform.

[drj]

Since i'm at work here (and not near my Maya). Could you tell me how to delete this history of the Curve?

[dmcgrath]

It's in the edit/delete by type/history. Use this one only. There is another that is delete all history and that really kills you when you use that. Just make a hotkey for it or put it asa shelf button. you will use it alot.

:beer:

[drj]

Well, I went home and started trying some of the suggestions and was still having the problem. One thing did work for me....as you can see in one of the screenshots that i attached above in this tutorial it had us build a placeholder wall in the middle of this room. When making the curves i've hidden everything else and went to FRONT view and held down V when clicking to snap the vertices to the placeholder vertices and then when laying down the arch points i've held X to snap to the grid. When i didn't use the placeholder wall and just used the grid to snap to, finished off the wall, duplicated and lofted with no problem. Why would that be? Shouldn't I be able to use vertices of another wall to snap my CV Curve Tool vertices to when drawing a new wall?

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