Give some width to a bezier curve? Help! :)

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Hi everyone!

A picture is worth a thousand words so I start with that:

IMG_20200629_114950
IMG_20200629_1149505120×2448 4.67 MB

So I have my bezier curve fitting the shape of the 3! But I can’t manage to give it some width!

The point is of course to reproduce the original 3

I tried a lot of thing in curve mode or converted to a mesh

In the curve panel I couldnt get what I need
Solidify modifier doesnt help at all
Skin modifier is very ugly result and almost not tweakable
I also tried to extrudre the mesh from top view but no luck!

Thank you for your help!!

Cheers
jb

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In the curve’s data Geometry panel you have multiple options:

  • Extrude for flat like shape
  • Bevel → Depth for circular profile
  • Bevel → Object for custom profile (create a custom curve profile then insert it in this field).

Example of custom curve profile:

customprofilecurve
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and a taper shape to make the curve shrink on its extremities

not sure you can achieve it easily with curves only, here is a try with a mesh with Array + Curve modifier, and I scaled the vertices with alt S:

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Hi

I did the bevel depth and then scaled to 0 on the Z axis.

Taper also helps for the final result

Thank you both for your time!

Best
jb

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  1. Use curves to form the outline of the 3.

  2. Join the curves into one and convert to mesh.

  3. Fill the edges to make a face.

  4. Extrude the face on z axis and bevel the edges.

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IMG_20200723_101605
IMG_20200723_1016052448×5120 3.12 MB

Finaly got it like I wanted but filling the edges/vertex doesnt work

so I have no face and can’t extrude…

I tried the solidify modifier but, of course, it doesnt create faces…

Any idea?

EDIT: I made it by creating a Text and convert it to a mesh, then I tweaked the mesh to look like my reference.

Thx!!

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Just a tip, if you want to take a screen shot in Blender you can head to the ’ Window’ menu (File - Edit - Render - Window ) and select ‘ Save Screenshot ’ (last option) from there and no need for another program (or a phone).

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Thx for the tip