Model an iron using 5 simple T-Splines for Rhino commands

This webinar was recorded on 4 February 2010 using T-Splines v2.2. In the recording, Kyle Houchens shows how to use 5 simple T-Splines for Rhino commands to model an iron.

T-Splines for Rhino offers an affordable solution for creating high-quality, organic surfaces for manufacturing.

In this webinar, we'll take a look at the very basics of how to use simple T-Splines commands to create freeform, organic shapes -- which can be passed as watertight IGES files to any CAD package.

Presenter: Kyle Houchens (owner of The Outside Digital Art and Design and T-Splines user).

This is the perfect webinar to watch if you're trying the T-Splines 25-save trial, or if you're just wondering how 3D software for organic design actually works. The webinar will be paced so that you will walk away with knowledge about how to actually use the product. Plus, we will give you the opportunity to ask questions.

[davidrydet]

Kyle Houchens is an amazing instructor and love all his videos

[designedA]

Excellent tutorial, very easy to follow up and actually understand what is going there !

[hcilrheniray]

probably the best tutorial i've seen in a while. fantestic

[tsplines]

@xme12x Hi, to answer your questions:

1. First of all this video was done with T-Splines v2. Now we're on v3. You can run tsEditMode to turn on the manipulators, which are used to drag the surface points and edges. If you press the ALT key, then drag surface edges or faces, it will extrude them.

2. I don't use the extract control polygon command much. That was mainly useful in T-Splines v1 before we had better commands.

[ghosthunter]

Can you do the tutorial for finishing? starting from 36:42

[renatxynha]

do you have any video making this iron?

[aiko]

you should start tutorial with how you made the base because the entire model drives from that since you are not have an image for the top view because it works since the bottom of the iron is flush against that plane

[tsplines]

@efeeryilmaz There are many ways to turn Rhino curves into T-Spline surfaces. The two most common commands to turn Rhino curves into T-Spline surfaces are tsExtrude and tsPipe. You can also use tsMatch to match a T-Spline surface to a Rhino curve.

[xmex]

amazing video! congratulations, i've been checking tons of tsplines tutorials and this is definitely the best one! i've got two questions, i hope you can help me out with them: 1) when you pull and drag the edges or points of the surfaces to adjust them to the sketch, do you push another command? i mean, you just keep pressed the click or you use another key like ctrl or alt or shift or something like that? and 2) do you use the "extract control polygon" command? i think is very useful! thanks!

[mayorc]

From what I do understand, TSplines allow you to create Catmull Clark Subdivision Surfaces right inside Rhino, than you can convert this to Nurbs surfaces for refining and adding trims, cuts in Rhino.But is it possible to convert all the resulting finished Nurbs geometry back to Subdivision Surfaces and possibly to export as Quad Mesh cage with weighetd geometry to import and use as SDS on other packages ?

From What I know Modo has a workflow to do just that thru PowerSubDNurbs and Cadloader.

[tsplines]

@ElRatondeMenomonie If you want organic shapes and a push/pull iteration workflow, then T-Splines will help a lot. You can't do this same workflow in Rhino alone.

[aiko]

is there way to project image to right viewport instead of top?

[goggin]

This was incredibly helpful.. thank you!

[efeeryilmaz]

is that possible to turn rhino curves to tspline surface?

[wanaaaaaaaaable]

*voila. Thanks a lot for the excellent tutorial! Cheers :)