01_Getting the Batwing

1. I started off by drawing a cube as a guide for my circles. I was thinking of lofting the curves to create the Batwing surface. Later I was stuck as to how to actually create the pattern.

2. I was really stuck as to how to create this surface so I googled, 'how to create a batwing surface with Rhino' and BINGO!!! I found this link that teaches me step by step how to create it: http://www.jotero.com/bilder/moi/batwing/

3. The video tut doesn't actually tell me the measurements or angle of the curves to create, so I just guessed, judging from the video.

4. After creating the most important surface, I mirrored it AND....IT DIDN'T JOIN!!! As you can see, there's a hole in the middle!!!

5. It took me a while to figure out how to do it. After leaving it for a few days, I finally figured it out! I set a screen print jpg of the desired form as a background in Rhino and copied it from there.

7. I created the surface from the 4 curves using 'NetworkSrf'. I matched the surface pretty closely to the tut's surface so I was happy!

11. I'm so happy that I was able to achieve this Batwing surface that I'm gona show every single step I did from here onwards!


























EXTREMELY AWESOME….!!!!!
its not scripting right??? please say no…lol
i would like to give a try in my free time… ^^
No Felix, I did it all manually!! I had to trace the shape from a screenshot and that’s why I’m so bloody happy that I’ve achieved this crazy surface!
I pretty much have all the steps in this blog so try it whenever you want!
nice to hear the instructions (video) also lead to success.
sincerely
Torolf
Hi Torolf
I’m revisiting minimal surface modelling and I just realised I didn’t acknowledge your website! So thank you sincerely Torolf for your instructions!
Jen