Tips and Troubleshooting

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Creating Curve Surfaces

In the default “Surface to Mesh” mode, the add-on uses curves to create mesh surfaces. The curves will be in interlocking ‘patches’, as described below.

To create 4 interlocking curves:

  1. Ensure that the Snap during Transform magnet icon is selected and that the Snap Element type is set to Vertex. This will ensure you can create a curve that can snap to another curve’s corners:

  2. Create 4 curves and arrange them in a 2x2 layout:

  3. Note that you can add as many control points as you like to make complex layouts:

  4. You an also create a network of interlocking 3 sided curves to create more complex surfaces:

Tip

You can split the shapes into 4 by selecting the vertices to separate and pressing ‘p’:

Split Patches

Extra Curve Objects

I recommend you install Add Curve: Extra Objects, freely available with the standard Blender installation. This will give you a lot more shapes to play with out of the box: