Excellent! Thanks for your help Jeff, I generated the solid.
My first attempts at following your instructions gave me some rather frilly and yet quite pretty solids, but after reading your reply a couple of times I realized it was the insert plane normal to the spline bit I was missing, and...
There is a picture of something similar here:
http://www.gotrobots.com/tmp/complex_topology.gif
This was my first attempt at creating the solid; it is not quite correct, however, since the 'humps' are created by taking linear cuts through the body, and therefore the cut is not radial at all...
Hi,
I am having a really hard time trying to figure out how to generate some complex topology with SW 2004. The easiest way to visualize what I'm after is to imagine a looped road that appears circular when viewed from abouve but that goes up a hill, over and then down the hill before looping...