Patching a Hole 2

[treddie]

Hello all.

I have this helmet bubble that I built from a VSS. But due to its odd shape, there was no way to terminate the bubble cleanly at the top. So an irregular hole is at the very top. I sliced the top just slightly larger than the hole with a cut so that at least the irregular hole was 2-dimensional. I can fill that hole boundary to make it a flat surface, but so far have not found a way to create a smooth patch to satisfactorily follow the bubble tangencies all the way to the apex of the bubble. In other words, I thought maybe I could apply a freeform blend to the flat surface, but the problem there is that the freeform surface that results does not terminate on the irregular hole boundary; it becomes a warped mesh rectangle instead that floats over the hole.

I also tried Edit>Extend, but that only allowed me to extend the bubble surface about .2 inch. My hole is a good 1 inch across.

Is there any procedure that works to fill up irregular (or even symmetrical) holes in geometry in ProE? A mesh would be fine I suppose, but at least a mesh whose boundary points land on the hole boundary.

Thank you very much,
treddie

 

[jeff4136]

Super deal. The pics look good. It ~has~ been a journey, eh? ;^)

 

[treddie]

Very long, but such is the nature of CAD and 3D. No "Easy" button available.

Here is an unfinished rendering test of the helmet and ring. Still hasn't rendered long enough to eliminate the noise.

 

[jeff4136]

Looks nice. Good luck with it.

 

[treddie]

Thanks!