"Jim Charter" <jrc### [at] msncom> schreef in bericht 
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>> Did you consider the reverse approach, i.e. defining or modelling
>> the splines and generating leather bands using a macro or similar?
>> You'd probably need a second spline for the "orientation". Come to
>> think of it, does anybody know of a tool for modelling 3D splines?
>
> Most advanced tools I believe would do that.  Perhaps Silo, not sure about 
> Blender, Rhino, one would think, certainly the professional tools. It is a 
> limitation of Wings that you can only export polys.  But really, that can 
> be worked around with the Python scripts, which once written, make it 
> easy.  The tedium comes with the manual nature of the export.  But that 
> would be similar even if you could build and export paths as splines or 
> even sequences of verts.  The work comes really from the amount of detail 
> in the subject itself.

I can confirm: Silo can model 3D splines very easily. In my image "Cathy's 
World #2" (the one in the dark tunnel), the curving tunnel was built using a 
spline.

Thomas

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