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Old 25th February 2013, 11:17 AM   #1
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Hello Forum Users,
I am an AC3d newbie and I wanted to know how to realize some economy seats for a B737NG!
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Old 25th February 2013, 04:25 PM   #2
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Default Re: Aircraft seats ( Economy)

Pretty much a "box modeling" job, with perhaps a few cylinders for some of the knobs and adjustment features? Maybe some chamfering to create some more contours on the edges of cushions and headrests?

You might want to base it on some good photography of the real thing (I must assume you don't have a technical drawing of the seat itself, since that would be very tightly controlled.... )
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Old 26th February 2013, 09:37 AM   #3
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Thank you so much for answering!
By the way, I managed to realize them! Here's my method:
1) Realize the later profile of the seat you wanna create and block the object
2)Then, realize the front view of the seat
3)Then, unblock the object of the "lateral seat view" and select the Cut Away option from the boolean menu. ( The lateral profile must come for 1st and then the front view must come for 2nd)
You're done!
Thank you all!
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Old 26th February 2013, 12:28 PM   #4
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That's a decent plan for a simple (low-poly) seat. A lot depends on how much fine detail you need. It might be a bit more complex if you actually need to have the seat articulate, or if it needs to be viewed from close up. Or, if you need to create separate objects for the seat, the back, the headrest, the armrests, the armrest controls, the mounting hardware, etc.

I wonder why you would need any kind of cut-away, though. If you create a simple side profile and extrude it, you would only need to extrude it to the proper width. No need to cut anything away, just vary the width.

There's another thread on here recently about the wisdom (or lack of same) of using booleans. I think our consensus is that booleans are more trouble than they're worth. They create a LOT of mess for anything but the simplest of operations.
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