Formula 1 Reno Racer

[sgreenawalt]

I'm working on some conceptual models for a Formula 1 Reno Racer, and using TSplines for the entire aircraft. Prior to this, I was doing my flying surfaces as NURBS, my fuselage as TSplines, and then using standard Rhino commands to create blends between them. I've been able to maintain the accuracy of my airfoils even while using tsMakeUniform, and I can say without a doubt I will never ever make another airplane in standard NURBS again - now that I have the topology where I want it, making edits to the model and really sculpting the blends is so easy and wonderful. This one is missing the landing gear and wheel pants, but I should have those on later this week.

-Sky

[Matt Sederberg]

Sky that is a gorgeous model in so many ways -- thank you for sharing it here! At some point could you show a closeup of the fading crease at the tail??

[sgreenawalt]

Matt -

Certainly! There is a nice crease fade from the fin to the elevator, and also one from the fin to the fuselage. The fin to the fuselage one is a bit more subtle, so I left the edges on for the screen shot.

-Sky

[Matt Sederberg]

love it.

[sgreenawalt]

Here's a few high quality renders, cooked up by CAD ninja Juan. Thanks Juan!

-Sky

[Matt Sederberg]

Sky has agreed to do a webinar with us to how how he modeled this airplane. This should be a great one. Register now!

Tuesday, April 26, 12 PM EDT

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/381274193

[Lee]

Really enjoyed the video, great even for a tspline beginner. I struggled to duplicate the wing to fuselage example until I remembered the make uniform command. I don't think you mentioned that in the video. The isocurves around the star points just don't give a smooth fairing until you make it uniform. Maybe there is some other way to control the star point location? Pulling star points around doesn't seem to work.
Thanks for the great webinar.

[sgreenawalt]

Lee -

Sorry if I wasn't explicit about that in the webcast - essentially, you HAVE to use tsMakeUniform on any model that has star points. The main thrust of the webcast is essentially how you can utilize the smoothing that tsMakeUniform provides, while keeping the accuracy of your airfoils. Every time you change your topology - even if it's just to insert an edge and does not add any star points or t-points to your model - you should run tsMakeUniform. Does that make sense?

-Sky

[alice135]

Thank you for providing the link, it's great for me as a begginer, I even think that now I will be able to do something more or less worthy... Great, thank you ones again!!!!

[yommytec]

@ Matt Sederberg missed the webnar but wonder if there is a recording of the webnar downloadable for those who could not make it.