# Revolve ellipse

**URL:** <https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/revolve-ellipse/35705>\
**Category:** Modeling Questions\
**Created:** [December 22, 2024, 2:35pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/revolve-ellipse/35705 "2024-12-22T14:35:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![pali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f8ce5/32.png) [@pali](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/pali)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2024, 2:35pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/revolve-ellipse/35705/1 "2024-12-22T14:35:06Z")

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Hey guys,

another day, another struggle. I want to make a curved ellipse button. Below I attached a rough sketch of the idea. Didn’t work on my side with sweep, extrude and postprocessing or revolving.

Does anyone of you have some good idea to handle this?

Thank you very much!

BR  
Patrick

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/3X/0/1/013d0d8f8e40b7d6fce305c9f188bb93e41470c8.png)

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**Author:** ![Oregonerd](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/oregonerd/32/8012_2.png) [@Oregonerd](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Oregonerd)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2024, 3:44pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/revolve-ellipse/35705/2 "2024-12-22T15:44:58Z")

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1. Make a sketch like your profile on the left side and extrude it. Then make a sketch of your top view (Oval on the right) above the extrusion. Extrude that down through the first extrusion but choose intersect.

2. Draw 2 ovals one inside the other and a line through them to revolve half of the ovoid into a half shell. Then extrude and oval sketch down through that choosing intersect.

2 different results. Should get you what you want.

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**Author:** ![pali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f8ce5/32.png) [@pali](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/pali)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2024, 7:41pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/revolve-ellipse/35705/3 "2024-12-22T19:41:16Z")

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Thanks Oregonerd! The second approach did it, great idea

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**Author:** ![Oregonerd](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/oregonerd/32/8012_2.png) [@Oregonerd](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Oregonerd)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2024, 9:16pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/revolve-ellipse/35705/4 "2024-12-22T21:16:57Z")

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I stand on the shoulders of everyone here. 😄