[tom]

How would those extruded panels on the curvy front look if their side-walls could be perpendicular to the surface tangent?

[NicoR44]

Hi Tom, almost all of them are, except for the cross section cuts, I used thicken to get most of them perpendicular

[tom]

Maybe it's an illusion to my eye, but is this angle 90 degrees?

[NicoR44]

Indeed, that's what I mean by " except for the cross section cuts " those are not perpendicular, still looking for a way to do that correctly, normally it should work, but the nose tip wouldn't thicken when it was cut, looking to solve that

[tom]

Cool that I still have eyes

[NicoR44]

You see everything Tom
I will fix that cut btw, it should be easy, just cut the surface before thickening, and than cut the shell and so on

[Hervé]

well it might not be the same but in Modo, the thicken command woks good but look like yours if I inadvertently input some offset.. but I am sure it must be very different.. hehe

[NicoR44]

Here you can see the difference :



Btw, the problem is that the offset curve was to small, but I think I can fix it tonight

[tom]

Upper sides look OK but, why does the bottom line extrusions non-parallel?

[NicoR44]

it is correct the way you see it, I have only thickened that surface, so all sides are perpendicular to that surface, it's because of the straight cut parts that it looks wrong now.
I will post another when I have them all perpendicular, than you'll see that it's correct, although not with a draft angle like you would need when making it for a aluminium mold.

[NicoR44]

Fixed, now all surfaces are truly perpendicular

[Hervé]

really Nice..

[NicoR44]

Thanks Hervé!!

So now the rear panels are ready too :

[tom]

The rear looks correct while I'm not perfectly comfortable about the front, yet. I guess the ugly OGL shading is misleading me. Could you render small closeups from different angles? Some heights still look slanted to me...

[NicoR44]