7/3/2023 0 Comments Formz nurbs blenbThe NURBS tools in formZ are very powerful and can do a lot of things. So within formZ you can work with regular object (made from extracting lines, surfaces and primitives, etc.), Sub-Division surface objects and tools that work on a per-object bases and NURBS objects and tools like MOI but extended. You can also make components of these converted objects to be reused in other projects. But in another very important sense it opens up, within a single program, many more options for creating very complex objects and surfaces. So in a sense you're right in that you will not be able to edit the object like you could when it was a sub divided object. You can extract or remove faces and then attach, merge, blend, extend, etc. If converted to NURBS, you can boolean it with other objects (Union, Difference, etc.). You can of course also make a copy of the sub divided object and hide it, or stick it on another layer and hide that layer, if you want to edit it later. Or convert it to NURBS or quad-mesh objects. When you're finished with this object, you can leave it as is. In addition you can also use the regular editing tools like move, scale, copy, etc on these sub divided objects. In formZ you can subdivide objects and have a bunch of Sub-Division tools to manipulate these objects, grow faces or edges, stretch, bridge, squeeze, divide, etc. There is a 30 day free trial of the Pro version, so you can check it out yourself. It will even do animations of your models. I love MOI, it is a great modeler, but formZ is really cool, very easy to learn and extremely deep and powerful. Here are the Sub-Division Tools, starts at the 8:30 time point: This video shows how to create Sub-Division objects and then convert them to NURBS for additional development: Note some of the videos are for bonzai3d, which is an older subset of formZ, now called formZ jr.: Here are some videos for creating complex forms (using NURBS) in a previous version of formZ (before Sub-Division) and all the Sub-Division tools. It has great NURBS tools along with new Sub-Division tools and the ability to change a Sub-Division object to a NURBS object in a single click. With what you want to accomplish I would take a serious look at formZ.
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