Creating a mesh of quad polygons from a spline

[baylward]

I have a complex curved 3D spline which accurately matches the edge of a curved surface that I am trying to model, and I want to convert it into a mesh of quad polygons.

I want to avoid the polyplane tool as this creates triangles.

Is there an easy way of 'filling' in the spline with quad polygons manually?

 

[frank beckmann]

What´s wrong with triangles? You can use some Boolean trickery with a tesselated cube.This allows you to create quads right up to the edge. But reaching the rim will end in triangles and nGons no matter what - until you manually rework the entire edge region. Or I‘d try to use the Spline as a blueprint to model from in quads like here: https://www.cheetah3d.com/forum/index.php?threads/10416/post-87459

 

[Helmut]

No idea if this may be useful in your model:
* I started with a torus knot as a basic spline
* Copy & paste, rescale to 0
* Use a Loft creator to generate a 3D surface. Due to the base spline, this is self-intersecting.
* You can use the U/V parameters to control the sizes of the resultant quads
* Due to the quads you can use ring / loop selects if you need those

 

[frank beckmann]

I meant something like this: