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erwinKrol
10-06-2009, 03:47 PM
Hi,

I'm not new to 3d modelling, but my background is CAD modelling. I want to try some 3d printing and model some nice furniture. But I have no idea how to model a product like this:
http://www.freedomofcreation.com/shop/order.php?pid=306

Is this made by polygon modeling? I've worked with maya, but only nurbs. Somehow this model seems to be of such complexity, I wouldn't know how to model this. Can someone shed some light on this subject and help me out?

I'm not asking for a tutorial or something, but just an insight in how to model such an object.

thanks
Psyk0
10-06-2009, 11:51 PM
Technically it's not difficult to model. The most difficult part is making sense of the pattern, if you want a pretty close replica of course.

I would model that starting with splines and convert them to polygons, merge where needed.
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