Primary Surfacing: Episode 9 - Fun With Car Hoods

This was a super fun one for me! Doing some really quick and fun automotive type detailing using a lot of the concepts covered thus far. Enjoy!

Also - if you want to avoid some of the Split Edge drama I had at the very end while making those final blends, the best thing is to Merge All edges first, and then go back and Split Edges where they should be. Don't do what I did and trust that the edge splits are where you want them.

[immortalxgr]

I'm skipping through the series to get an overview of the workflows, knowing that there's content in there that I could study and practice for many many hours. I haven't seen anything like this, where theory and practical examples are so nicely combined in detail. This is really GOLD stuff and thank you so much for giving it for free. Hats off to you!

[marcinnadratowski]

I can't express how eye opening all of your tutorials are. I've seen dozens of YT videos showing complex filets etc. And the funny part is that when things get messy or tools do not work as intended in said videos (i estimate that it occurs in about 7 out of 10 tutorials) author is stating that "Rhino sometimes act funny" or "for the purpose of video i wont be fixing that now". Not to mention that other tutors tend to ignore control points distribution and surface degree aspect enitrely. I've rewatched some of tutorials and just giglled a bit but then frustration kicked in when i reminded myself how many hours i've spent trying to solve problems, when i was doomed to fail from the begining.
Your videos are excellent, please keep them coming.
Cheers!

[benrobb]

Best tutorial series on Rhino I've watched yet! Thank you so much for releasing these videos.

[EngineerAAJ]

I thing this tutorial pretty much shows How to build chines and spray hails as I asked on the other vid.

Thank you again for your content, it is truly amazing to see you doing all this and it just works without the level of stress I get from doing the spider web of curves approach

[marklandsaat]

For the pipe intersect, Extend Curve on Surface, is also a really quick way to extend the trim curve to the edge of the surface. I use both techniques.

[parelt]

Loved it. You were reading my mind at the end about scoops that didn't follow the underlying topology. Much needed "basics" The stuff we do all the time but is really not intuitive or taught in a manual.

[hendriksprikdesign]

Amazing tutorial, just like the others on your channel! Thank you so much!

[EricM]

I've learned something from each vid, but not shrinking on Split by Iso is really interesting.
Also, you can use the Alt key to bypass OSnaps for a pick instead of disabling/enabling.

[archierri]

Greetings! Great Knowledge Sharing here! Can you please make some explanation of building louvres on the car bodies? Like those on Zauber you did before. Or on the retro cars, they have a bunch. Thanks in advance!

[perlependium]

Awesome tutorial and channel! Thank you very much for sharing this. A have a question: As a surfacing professional, do you work with other CAD software (e.g. Alias, other …) especially after autodesk / VSR has been discontinued for Rhino? I sometimes struggle with the surface quality of some surface creation methods, matching and surface verification options in Rhino. And Alias is just another price category … Thank you!

[joebabb]

Thanks again for this great series. I have what I hope is an easy question. When you go to finally untrim what I think is the original surface toward the end, you dup an edge first. I'll go back and study that. But the basic question is why do you duplicate an edge in that process?

[Knil]

Looks like you might touch on this on another tutorial, but I was wondering, why do we use blend srf when it might not create nice surfaces sometimes, wouldn’t it be good to to use something like EdgeSrf to create our own blends and then match it? I mean I get it’s more work but just curious.

[shirinchepirinche]

Is there any advantage of matching surface edges individually than doing all with multiplematch? (Might have missed the answer if it is already in the series.:(

[anthonysmithtube]

These final fillets kill me.
Then you need to rebuild it 30 times in cp- deisgn phase with engineering.
The reason I'm considering going parametric.