Rounded edges

[hypersim]

Hi everyone, I've got a question. I've made my little character in soft and im currently trying to stick some jacket collars on to him. He's quite a portly fellow, so his body is rounded. I've projected my nurbs outline onto him and then extracted the shape, yada, yada yada, but now I want to extrude the shape. I've done that but the edge looks really sharp, I've tried skinning but to no avail (Why oh why does capping a nurb induce a singularity on the top or bottom spline!!!) and my only other option is to forget 3D altogether and become a stripper, going from club to club selling my manly body for next to nothing. Of course, thats not my only option, but its a possibility...
Anyone know how to round an objects edges. (I also know what a bevel is; should I bevel a face from the extracted extrusion? What?)
Cheers

[fredc]

I am not totally certain if I understand your question. However, since you say you extruded the shape, I'll assume it is a sleeve or something similar.
The would be sharp, and to round it off. I prefer to let the model shape to the rounding...it keeps things simple and gives very good results.

1. Be sure it is a NURB. You can convert from B-Spline if you need.
2. Use Edit/AddPoint to add two or three rows of points around the end of edge.
3. Use Edit/SelectRow to grab the last row of points.
4. Use Edit/CenterToVerticies to make the center of surface in the middle of the points.
5. Scale or move the Tagged points as needed to get the outside rows to bend the edge inside like the lip of a trumpet horn.

This gives a nice smooth edge and there is not continuity or texturing issues from having multiple surface.

Sorry, if this is not what you need. This works for polymeshes as well, but instead of adding rows you'll have to slice polygons near the edges.

Hope this helps,
Urp

[hypersim]

Thanks for the help Urp, but Im not too sure I've made myself clear; you got the gyst of what I was trying to say but I don't think you understood me. Sorry. When you mean add points, are you meaning for me to add rows of points? This is also achieved with the subdivision command isn't it (providing its a nurbs surface, of course)? Thats a great idea although I tried something similar to that when I extruded the spline: I used a subdivision of 3 which gave me extra rows of points. I then selected the topmost points and scaled them. But because the original spline was projected onto quite a round surface, the scaling would cause the points to dissappear through the other points; of course, thinking now, I could just scale the points on that particular axes to stop the faces intersecting. Thanks for your help Urp.

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