A bamboo pole, like a tube, was created with a B-spline line (to show the nodes) and rotated. Works fine as a line style. Theoretically being a surface, it should not need a magic to thicken to a solid? Any idea appreciated.
Ingemar Saevfors
It might be geometrically simpler to create the bamboo profile from lines and arcs using a SmartLine. I did this then created a surface by revolution that I could thicken:
Would you like to send us a sample of your model?
Concidentally, I spent part of my weekend reducing the size of one of the bamboo clumps in my garden, hard work :-)
Marc
Hello Marc,
Your method is much easier, but it looks like plumbing to be honest. The nature of Bamboo is very hard to represent in CAD which is producing too straight lines. With bamboo there is always a very fine tapered form towards the nodes. If you try B-splines it´s possible to make this very fine nuance after zooming in,but then you also get unwanted rings at every vertice which look strange.
The same problem seems to happen when modifying solids. Say you extend a solid slab for example, you will get marks at the "joint" just like you get with real concrete work. Maybe you know a work around also for this?
Ingemar
Agreed it is a very crude representation, also hard to replicate the reducing diameter of the upper portion of each stem. Why are you modelling bamboo? Just curious!
The junctions between faces will generally show up in wire frame and illustration views. Which combination of tools are you using to when the unwanted lines appear?
Also which application version are you using?