smooth/ bevel edges?

Hi everyone

I have made a 3d sketch in sketch-up, which as you can imagine is quite triangular and rigid. When I import this into rhino everything comes in as seperate meshes... I now want to smooth/ bevel the edges in order to join the various meshes and also smooth/ analyse the curvature of the mesh. I have tried contouring and re-lofting everything (in order to produce a surface), but this is hard to control, i have also used weaverbird 'wbcatmullclark', but this only smooths the seperate meshes and leaves the joints rigid, it also distorts the original proportions. I have also tried some of the 't-spline' options, but nothing seems to give me the desired effect - i thought that this could be quite simple, but turned out to be very difficult... think i am missing something. Can anyone help me please?

PS the image shows the result from weaverbird - as you can see the edges are still very sharp

thanks

anchel

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Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Mateusz Zwierzycki on March 3, 2011 at 3:51am

fastest way - model it in rhino ;]

sketchup really doesnt matter about mesh triangulation etc.

Permalink Reply by Dedackelzucht on March 3, 2011 at 4:11am

HAHA...good replie...has been my first thought, too :-)

but serious: I would use the edges from the sketchup model and divide the geometry into parts (big a spossible). And generate new meshes by linking the surfaces to the new meshes.

A bit of work, but than its a clean model.

Best regards

Dackel

Permalink Reply by anchel on March 3, 2011 at 8:15am

thanks for the encouragement guys... the thing is even rebuilding in rhino does for some or other reason not want to bevel or chamfer edges... and I would like to be able to control the 'smoothness' through a slider or graph mapper in grasshopper. I managed to bevel edges, but lost the material attributes - thanks though

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