Basic Principles of Surfacing

Before you start creating surfaces on a new model, you should consider the following:

• Do you want the neighbouring surfaces to be tangent?
  
  
• How many internals do you need to constrain the surface to the underlying triangles?
  
  
• Is it possible to match internals in neighbouring surfaces?
  
  
• Can you generate curves to use from the open boundary of the model, from horizon lines, from cross sections or from discontinuities in the model?
  
  
• Can you sketch curves to use as surface boundaries?
  
  
• Can you use the orientation of the model to determine exact location of the surface boundaries?
  
  
• Will you need to use guide points to define the curves used as surface boundaries?

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Creating Curves