Model an iron using 5 simple T-Splines for Rhino commands

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This webinar was recorded on 4 February 2010 using T-Splines v2.2. In the recording, Kyle Houchens shows how to use 5 simple T-Splines for Rhino commands to model an iron.

T-Splines for Rhino offers an affordable solution for creating high-quality, organic surfaces for manufacturing.

In this webinar, we'll take a look at the very basics of how to use simple T-Splines commands to create freeform, organic shapes -- which can be passed as watertight IGES files to any CAD package.

Presenter: Kyle Houchens (owner of The Outside Digital Art and Design and T-Splines user).

This is the perfect webinar to watch if you're trying the T-Splines 25-save trial, or if you're just wondering how 3D software for organic design actually works. The webinar will be paced so that you will walk away with knowledge about how to actually use the product. Plus, we will give you the opportunity to ask questions.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• NURBS
• subdivision surface
• cad
• surfacing
• 3d modeling
• rhino 3d
• T-Splines
• webinar
• iron
• beginner
• basic
• tutorial

[xme12x]

amazing video! congratulations, i've been checking tons of tsplines tutorials and this is definitely the best one! i've got two questions, i hope you can help me out with them: 1) when you pull and drag the edges or points of the surfaces to adjust them to the sketch, do you push another command? i mean, you just keep pressed the click or you use another key like ctrl or alt or shift or something like that? and 2) do you use the "extract control polygon" command? i think is very useful! thanks!

[tsplines]

@xme12x Hi, to answer your questions:

1. First of all this video was done with T-Splines v2. Now we're on v3. You can run tsEditMode to turn on the manipulators, which are used to drag the surface points and edges. If you press the ALT key, then drag surface edges or faces, it will extrude them.

2. I don't use the extract control polygon command much. That was mainly useful in T-Splines v1 before we had better commands.

[ElRatondeMenomonie]

I was always under the impression that you can "push and pull" surfaces by their control points in Rhino (so I heard, I could be wrong) to shape surfaces/solids, so what does having TSplines as a plug-in to Rhino add to it? I am thinking of buying the edu version of Rhino for school and am wondering how TSplines would help. I might want to buy the edu version of TSplines too. :)

[tsplines]

@ElRatondeMenomonie If you want organic shapes and a push/pull iteration workflow, then T-Splines will help a lot. You can't do this same workflow in Rhino alone.

[efeeryilmaz]

is that possible to turn rhino curves to tspline surface?

[tsplines]

@efeeryilmaz There are many ways to turn Rhino curves into T-Spline surfaces. The two most common commands to turn Rhino curves into T-Spline surfaces are tsExtrude and tsPipe. You can also use tsMatch to match a T-Spline surface to a Rhino curve.

[ElRatondeMenomonie]

@tsplines Thanks very much! Ok, i will buy both and try them out! I am an ID student.

[82WhiteBird]

This is more than great! Thanks for this tutorial!

[kerranz]

awesome as always!