I want to create a cute animal nose on a ball surface. The idea was to create one ellipse from the front view and project it on the balls surface. In the first attempt I created another sketch with a distance to the projected area and tried to create a loft connecting both. The problem was that I couldn’t fillet the edges of the resulting geometry, since Shapr didn’t recognize it was one part. Seems like there is a minimum gap between the newly created geometry and the existing ball - that’s why the fillet went into the wrong direction. Instead of smoothening the transition from one to another, the opposite happened.
So attempt #2: The projection remained and I created another sketch from the side view - another ellipse. The intention was again to find a way to “revolve” one part of the projected ellipse with a variable radius to match the side-view ellipse to finally increase the radius again, matching the projected ellipse again. The result should have been a bit like half of an american football.
Writting this I struggle finding the correct words, so I hope with the attached pictures the issue gets a bit clearer.
What are your thoughts about this? Do you have some nice approach?
Thanks for your reply Bob. Lofting doesn’t even create a new body on my end - so I can’t even union. If I did it separately, another step would be necessary to remove the excess material inside the ball - that’s what I would like to avoid.
I also attached a picture of the weird fillet Shapr does with the Loft geometry.
Without the sketches you wanted to use in the loft, it is hard to tell. Just looking at your second screenshot, it seems as if there are two bodies, the head and the nose.
Yes, I deleted it again since it looked s*** I made an ellipse an projected it on the ball. I made another ellipse with some distance to the projection. I created a loft from one to the other. A few roundings, that was it. After a few days off I checked again and was able to union the nose and the head. It seems like I had a naming issue - both had the same name, that’s why I didn’t find the nose body. So thanks Bob, issue resolved