I’m doing and exercise about modeling a PC mouse, this is supossed to be almost the final result.
it stars with a shape like this converting ONLY the three profile curves into a group.
To make the exercise easy to me, and trying to understand why it doesn’t work for me I decided to start with a more sinmple shape, like this:
The problem is … after pulling the yellow face for first time is supposed I should be able to snap the new face created just selecting the new face and using scale to snap or make it coincidence the new face with the three profile curves, like this (it doesn’t talk about moving and autofold, so it’s just scale tool):
The problem is … I can scaling it on a aproximation size that matches with the profile curves, but they don’t snap perfectly. So my question is, am I doing something wrong? maybe Model Info > Units?
When using the Scale tool, select the handle, hold Ctrl (Option/Alt on Mac) to Scale About Centre, and drag to size. If you move the mouse pointer while you are dragging, down to the line, it should snap there - at least to a segment end point if not anywhere in the line. Not at my computer at the moment so can’t try it yet myself.
Thanks, but it’s what I’m trying, maybe it works for simetric and sharped shapes as mine in which you can make a difference on every single segment, but it seems not to stick correctly at all in the exercise.
And this one is mine using … different methods, starting with a circle, making it ovale, cutting the frontal side with a straight line and pulling from the face and scalling, the inward face has been done with a cilinder with different on each side and exploding the circles, then intersecting the faces.
