Thanks for the help. I've never worked with cylinders, I assumed they had
flat ends as I don't have much time. There are two problems though. A
violins bulge is more like a sine wave and the sides shouldn't get thicker
at the cut-away parts. I've just thought of blobs. maybe that would work, so
I'm going to give that a try now.

Thanks

Nekar
"Joshua English" <eng### [at] spiritonecom> wrote in message
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> Nekar Xenos wrote:
>
> > I have the vectors for the shape. Can I extrude that instead of using
csg
> > and still do the bulge? I'll try your method just to get the hang of it.
At
> > the moment I can't understand how an intersection with a cylinder would
give
> > a bulge, but I'll take a deeper look into it.
>
> A sphere might work as well, but you'd have a harder time getting it to
look
> right, I think. The cylinder provides the curve of the surface, as if you
were
> looking down the neck of the violin towards the base, then the violinshape
> object gives the form of the violin. You don't want the flat surface of a
> prism, so a cylinder will have enough curve to it to simulate the bump.
I'll
> post some images in p.b.i to explain it a bit.
>
> Josh
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