Toilet bowl

[paulo]

How do i draw a toilet bowl? It's been a cadlife long search for me. Thanks

[ReMark]

In its simple form it could take the shape of a rectangle for the tank and an oval for the bowl. Or you could just save yourself a lot of time and trouble and download a CAD drawing of the bowl-of-your-dreams from any reputable manufacturer such as American Standard.

Here's a link to their website and CAD drawings of their fixtures:

http://www.americanstandard-us.com/t...adDrawings.asp

[Spacepig]

Hi Paulo

The key to creating "weird and wonderful shapes" I find is to create a 3d mesh and then use the m2s lisp to turn it into a solid.

To create the mesh in the first place, look up the edgesurf command. If you create the profile on the centreline of the bowl, and then the back and the edge, split the edge into two sections so you have 4 sides touching each other. Set your surftab1 and surftab2 variables to say 50 and run edgesurf - you should have the inside of the bowl. Use m2s to turn it into a solid then do the same for the outside of the bowl and subtract one solid from the other to get the final solid shape

All the best

Spacepig

[Spacepig]

Hi again Paulo

I meant to mention that there is a good source of toilets / urinals etc at http://www.thebluebook.co.uk

All the best

Spacepig

[paulo]

Thanks for the replies and also the links. But since am already here, maybe i can ask for a step by step tutorial of this since i think that it's not a simple shape specially the inside of the bowl. But maybe am asking too much, ain't I? Thanks for all of these again. I appreciate it.