Hi

This is Aussie John writing some notes in a Rhino file. It sure looks good.

I discovered the concept in the creating breastplate tutorial of:-

    http://www.grottoazura.com/Products/Tutorials/3dgfx.html

 ..which did not lead to the site of Creating a Breastplate author Sergio Martinez
(search net for this guy).

Use NOTES _|  (File>Notes) and also see Notes Command in the key Index of the Help file.

How do you access the blue header bar to put a specific title?

How do you put a pic in like the yellow rubber duckie tutorial (which is full html with link to stylesheet and everything)? The top looks a bit like a windows internet explorer minus all the internet crap you would not want if showing html in a drawing file. I wasted a save putting a hello world html file into a drawing file with the Note command and saved it and when I opened the file it just displayed my html code in the Note window. How is the Rubber Duck (html) tutorial done? Is JavaScript envolved? I dont see how because there are no messages about need for java script enabling. Maybe I should ask on the forums!

I suppose you could draft text in a text editor like Homesite and drop it in because it was easy enough to highlight it, copy to the clip board then paste it into a text editor, Word (the editor of   Rhino?). I pasted it here! And look I pasted Sergio's text at bottom of this file! But I made some simple changes to it in place before I copied it. This means the user can edit a note by the creator of the drawing and save it the same as changing and resaving the drawing itself.

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Creating a Breastplate by Sergio Martinez.

Remember to save often...

Here we go. As you can see, I have already set up the background bitmaps and created the necessary curves to do our base mesh for the breastplate.

Study these lines so you can understand how they are positioned. As you can see, they sort of give the idea of the shape.

Let's begin. Go to the Surface menu and select Loft. Now select all lines at the same time by using the box drag and then press enter. You should end up with a basic shape resembling the breastplate. Shade the perspective view so you can see the results.

Step two, cutting the neck and arm sections. Go to Edit and select Layers and then Edit... Turn on layer two (red). You should now see three lines which we are going to use to cut our base. Select the three curves and extrude them forward untill they pass through and to the front of the base. Next, click on the Split button on the toolbar. Select the base as object to cut and the three new extruded shapes as the cutting objects and hit enter. The base should have been cut. Select the base, it should now be higligted and all the other parts should be unselected. Do a reverse selection from the edit menu and delete all the extra remaining junk.

Amost done, the shoulder straps are probably not together, to get them together go to the Surface menu and select Blend. Now select the edge from the front strap and the edge from the rear strap and hit enter. The strap should have been complete now. Repeat for the other strap and then join the base to this two new sections. 

Last step, Select Pipe from the solids menu, and pipe the neck, arm openings and the waist.

Extras

Shoulder pads, I included another layer,  Layer 3 (blue). Turn this layer on and you should see three lines over the right shoulder. Study them and then select loft. Select them starting with the one in the rear then center then front and hit enter. We now should have a shoulder guard. Mirror it to the left side, Pipe the edges and done.
           
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