AC3D Forums - View Single Post - Forming object to the surface of another object

lisa · 17th January 2008, 11:40 PM

Ah... that's actually one of the trickier things to do!

What I'd probably do is slice the butterfly vertically using the knife tool, evenly spacing each slice and making it so each slice is the same width as the cylinder. Then, grab all the vertices past the "joint" (slice) and from the top view, rotate the wing segment so it lines up with the first cylinder slice. Next, deselect the vertices that were lined up in the previous action, leaving the rest of the wing in your selection. Repeat the rotate and deselect until all of the slices are lined up with the cylinder.

The other thing you could try--and I'm not sure how well this would work--would be to extrude the butterfly until it intersected with the side of the cylinder and then boolean the extruded butterfly with a copy of the cylinder. As long as your butterfly was flat in the first place this *should* give you a butterfly cut-out, although the boolean tools can be a bit touchy.

17th January 2008, 11:40 PM	#2
lisa Senior Member Professional user Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 917	Re: Forming object to the surface of another object Ah... that's actually one of the trickier things to do! What I'd probably do is slice the butterfly vertically using the knife tool, evenly spacing each slice and making it so each slice is the same width as the cylinder. Then, grab all the vertices past the "joint" (slice) and from the top view, rotate the wing segment so it lines up with the first cylinder slice. Next, deselect the vertices that were lined up in the previous action, leaving the rest of the wing in your selection. Repeat the rotate and deselect until all of the slices are lined up with the cylinder. The other thing you could try--and I'm not sure how well this would work--would be to extrude the butterfly until it intersected with the side of the cylinder and then boolean the extruded butterfly with a copy of the cylinder. As long as your butterfly was flat in the first place this should give you a butterfly cut-out, although the boolean tools can be a bit touchy.