How to create a swept surface ?

vanpn · July 8, 2008, 5:49pm

Hi everyone!

I have a cubic curve and I want to create a swept surface obtained by sweeping a ellip along the curve. I don’t know how to do it.

Anyone can help please ?

Brolingstanz · July 8, 2008, 8:00pm

Try creating an outline of an ellipse, then transform it into a TNB frame along the curve, connecting the dots with triangles or strips as you go.

vanpn · July 8, 2008, 10:47pm

“Transform it into a TNB frame along the curve”. What do u mean ? Could you specify it more clearly ?

NiCo1 · July 9, 2008, 12:43am

vanpn · July 9, 2008, 12:55am

Um, I’ll try it. But does it run on Windows ? I’m using VC++ 2003 on Windows.

NiCo1 · July 9, 2008, 1:34am

According to the sourceforge project page it should work on windows.