Philhuntdesign Posted August 26, 2016 Share Posted August 26, 2016 i have this project on the go and i'm at a loss at where to start any help or guidance would be appreciated thanks phil 15m x 20m.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Posted August 26, 2016 Share Posted August 26, 2016 Hi Phil, Welcome to the forum! That is going to require a fair bit of knowledge regarding the NURBS and other organic tools to create this shape. If you are not familiar with these yet, you should definitely practice on more simple shapes first to understand how everything works before trying to tackle the more complex shape. This tutorial is for an older version of formZ, but should still apply in general: ftp://ftp.formz.com/pub/formz/PDF_files/tutorials/circus_tent_tutorial.pdf Does that get you going in the right direction? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philhuntdesign Posted August 26, 2016 Author Share Posted August 26, 2016 well it certainly helps a lot i know this shape is a real hard one to model but i will give it a go using the tutorial thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AHTOH Posted August 26, 2016 Share Posted August 26, 2016 Hi Phil. What is a grey shape underneath? Basically you can create a shape like this in FormZ. It is not going to look as natural as you it could be if it made in apps with real physics like Marvelous Designer or Blender: Besides, from the draft you provided shape does not seem to be really elegant. Here is a model Best, Anton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philhuntdesign Posted August 26, 2016 Author Share Posted August 26, 2016 Hi thanks it's the plan from the tent co. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philhuntdesign Posted August 26, 2016 Author Share Posted August 26, 2016 Wow that's a great start did you do this with pulling nurbs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etroxel Posted August 26, 2016 Share Posted August 26, 2016 Subdivision surfaces with point weighting would work for this as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AHTOH Posted August 26, 2016 Share Posted August 26, 2016 Wow that's a great start did you do this with pulling nurbs Marvelous designer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philhuntdesign Posted August 26, 2016 Author Share Posted August 26, 2016 Subdivision surfaces with point weighting Where do I find this ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etroxel Posted August 26, 2016 Share Posted August 26, 2016 I played around with tensile structures when v8.5 was released. Let me see if I can dig up the test file and post it here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etroxel Posted August 27, 2016 Share Posted August 27, 2016 I found the file. It's basic, but if you edit the SDS cage, you can see the 'sharpness' (not weights, sorry that's another program) on the three points at the top of the tent. tent roof structure.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philhuntdesign Posted August 28, 2016 Author Share Posted August 28, 2016 thanks had a look at the file....great help thank you so when you use the control point to pull the peak can you adjust the settings to make it sharper...more pointed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etroxel Posted August 29, 2016 Share Posted August 29, 2016 That's correct. You can see the front corner of the sheet is very round - where no sharpness has been applied. If you select one of the four corner points at the boundary and increase the sharpness, they will look more like the corner of a rectangular object. I find SubD's a good tool for this because of the naturally 'stretchy' nature of the geometry. Good luck! thanks had a look at the file....great help thank you so when you use the control point to pull the peak can you adjust the settings to make it sharper...more pointed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duncan303 Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 This is something I wrestled with the in past also - I used a serious of guidelines and guided lofts to get an approximate 3d model of this type of structure. Sub D tool could be worth a look though - thanks for the file above.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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