Primary Surfacing: Episode 6 - MatchSrf and Matching Secrets! 

You're welcome, thanks for watching!

Yeah I know they have some tool, but from what I can tell so far it might just do two edges at a time - I really like you can analyze your entire model at once with VSR.

Sorry for the delay, not sure why I don't always get notifications to comments! I'll dig around and see if I have the earlier version, but I kinda doubt it because I probably saved it with that final matched surface.

Hey again! Would you care to share your thoughts on how things evolved in the cad world in the last years? Are you still using t-splines in any way? For me Rhino has been a big let down. Have you ever felt the same? Are you still active online in any way other than YT? I'd like to follow along. Regards from Greece!

@@captivenut4122 So for me, I've been using VSR/Autodesk Shape on Rhino V5 heavily for the past few years - I really moved away from using T-Splines after they left Rhino, and frankly found that for lots of the stuff that I do, a classic patch modeling/class-a approach creates a better end product than a sub-d approach. That being said I'm glad Rhino has put sub-d of their own into 7 and will play around with it. For me, it's been frustrating to see how little development of the core surfacing tools has taken place in subsequent versions of Rhino. I'm now on 7, but still primarily surface in V5/VSR Shape. For me, this is now my primary focus instead of the blog. I'm also active on the Rhino forums under sgreenawalt. I'm curious about why you feel let down by Rhino though - there's many plusses but also minus to Rhino, it's a trade off for sure.

@@thirtysixverts " it's been frustrating to see how little development of the core surfacing tools has taken place in subsequent versions of Rhino." That's the big let down right there! Couldn't have put it better myself. I mean all the primary tools like blending, matching, lofting e.t.c. have been (almost) unaltered since Rhino 4 as far as I can tell. And you still have very limited options for quality surfacing and continuity control. Not to mention the (lack of) means to analyze your work, which is still those horrendous zebra stripes. Also there was a point in time when some really great plug-ins were available, but not anymore. To name the top three for me: Shape Modeling, T-Splines and Rhinoworks. Man those would have been game changers, had they stayed with Rhino. On the other hand for the price you do get quite a lot (especially in my case being a teacher), so yeah, can't complain too much. I'd like to thank you for the reply. I'll be looking forward for future posts. Cheers!

@@captivenut4122 You're preaching to the choir here lol! There are a FEW nice improvements in 7 - like the ability to measure edge continuity with EdgeContinuity, but I'm with you 100%. Stock Rhino tries with all its might to create overly dense surfaces that are difficult to edit, unless you know how to fool it into doing otherwise - hence this series! If you had Shape - why not just use 5/Shape? If you're really into surfacing, there's nothing on 7 that matches 5 with Shape.

@@thirtysixverts I never had Shape. Not doing this on a pro level could not justify the price tag and I was also not too confident in my skills to take the next step, but I had high hopes that someday I would be able to get there. Then came Autodesk with a completely different opinion! 😅

Thanks! No clue on the points vanishing - I'd get in touch with the folks at McNeel via the Discourse Forum

I honestly don't know - it's a little silly to name something "automatic" imho - really doesn't tell you what's going on with your surface.

Hey that's actually a good idea for a vid! I'll see if I can make one this week.

If they are both single span, then you can always use the ChangeDegree command and make the lower degree surface the same as the higher degree one. If they are different degree AND different spans, then you'll likely want to Rebuild them to the same parameters.

@@thirtysixverts Thank you. I was able to do it using the matchsrf command

There is now a free user created tool called Global Edge Continuity if you're on V7, and I highly recommend it. Do a search for that on the Rhino forum and the appropriate thread should pop up. I myself still use V5/VSR for all my professional work, but use V7 when I need better mesh editing tools or quick renders with Cycles.

@@thirtysixverts Awesome. But i'm curious why do you still prefer VSR when GEC is available? is it missing features that VSR has or are you just accustomed to vsr's UI? Im sure youve tried GEC. are there differences in the results?

Lol too much Thanksgiving food. GEC is nice but it's just an analysis tool, not a modeling tool. VSR has all the core modeling tools I need for high quality surfacing.