Help get me a smooth rendering

gregvoth

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• Aug 13, 2008

• #1

Help get me a smooth rendering

I have a cylinder with an 6-sided N-edge sweeping along a Helix and subtracting from the Cylinder in a Boolean oeration. I can't figure out how to make the subtraction really smooth into the surface of the cylinder... any thoughts?

I've uploaded my .jas file here. Thanks in advance.

 

gregvoth

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• Aug 13, 2008

• #2

Here's the .jas file as a .zip

Whoops, here's the file.

 

Last edited: Jan 29, 2010

gregvoth

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• Aug 13, 2008

• #3

Got a smooth render

I added sections longitudinally - from 30 to 60 - to the cylinder and increased the sections of the helix from 50 to 300.

Thanks to anyone who was starting to think about this one!

 

Martin

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• Aug 13, 2008

• #4

Hi,
I've increased the tesselation of the helix and the cylinder. Then you will get this.

Bye,
Martin

 

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• Cylinder.jas.zip

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Martin

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• Aug 13, 2008

• #5

So I was one minute too late. :tongue:

 

gregvoth

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• Aug 13, 2008

• #6

Thanks for your input

Actually, it's good to see I was on the right track, and nice to see how you handled things... I'll increase the numbers as per your solution. Thanks!

 

Martin

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• Aug 14, 2008

• #7

Hi Greg,
this is the answer to your email. I still can't sent you emails. They always bounce back with an error message. I already had that problem with your email address some weeks ago.

That is a numerical problem. Moving the geometry slightly usually fixes that problem.

Bye,
Martin