On 4/23/2021 4:17 PM, Jordan Brown wrote: > On 4/23/2021 4:03 PM, Sayandeep Khan wrote: >> ­How can we extract such faces from a shell given some conditions? > > I'd be happy to cook up a demonstration, but I don't have time right now. > > Here's the basic theory... > > Have you looked at how you build a polyhedron?  You define a bunch of > points, and then you connect groups of those points into faces that > all add up to being the polyhedron. > > The idea here is that you're going to build a polyhedron that mostly > looks like a cylinder a bit bigger than the cylinder that you're going > to cut, except that the top of this polyhedron is wavy, using your > Bezier curve. [ And on autopilot I hit Ctrl+Enter and sent the message when I wasn't ready to... ] If you have N points in your Bezier curve, you're probably going to have 3*N, or maybe 2*N+1 faces: * Your top surface is a bunch of triangles with their outside vertices along the Bezier curve that's wrapped around the cylinder, and the inside vertex at the center of the cylinder at some middle-of-the-road Z value * The shell is a bunch of quadrilaterals with those same outside vertices as the top vertices, and the bottom vertices being those same X/Y values and Z just below the base of the cylinder to be cut. * The bottom surface might be a set of triangles similar to the top surface, but all with that same just-below-the-base Z value, or maybe you can do it as one big N-gon. Doing this is a bit intricate, but isn't all that *hard* once you get the pattern down.  Mostly it's a bunch of list comprehensions, and some light trigonometry to walk around the circumference of the cylinder-like polyhedron that you're constructing.