Loft or Sweep or fillet an extrusion?

Hi!
Been gone for a while.
I'm going to do a gastank (moto).
Different top,side (mirrored) and bottom.
What would be the best approach?
I want it nicely rounded at the front, back and sides.
Think of an egg that has been skweesed from top and bottom.

 

Are you looking to have it manufactured? If so, the method of
manufacture should determine your design, and therefore the technique
you use. The simplest technique, of course, is filleting a simple
extrusion, but that doesn't mean it's best for the purpose.

'Sporky'

 

I would probably use lofts, but sweeps would also do the trick, depending on
the shape you want. If you're on subscription, there are some nice flattened
egg shapes in the part library. I think Mark Biasotti put a couple of them
in.

If you want to do this kind of work very often, you should download all
three of Ed Eaton's Curvy Stuff tutorials from the DiMonte Group website:
http://www.dimontegroup.com/

Jerry Steiger
Tripod Data Systems
"take the garbage out, dear"

 

He's an old thread on some tanks..

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=

...

 

Before you start making surfaces or solids, start with a good set of
control line sketches for profiles and sections at key planes. Use
your control line sketches and "convert entities" to copy control line
geometry to sketches used in features (such as extrusions and lofts).
This way, if your features don't turn out the way you expect, you
still have your control lines to start with.