Interior boolean meshsmoothing

[jujubee]

I've got an ipod im trying to model. the interior face edges (i.e. - surrounding the lcd) are smoothed. I can boolean it out but the rounded edges I cannot create. I know powersolids can do something of this nature but alas, my demo expired. does anyone have any simple suggestions on how to do something similar to this?

-juju

[jujubee]

well- made my own workaround which was difficult. ended up using my cutting objects and scaling vertices up independently- meshsmoothing then perfomring boolean operations to cutaway. If anyone has any better suggestions or knows of any tools to optimize workflow in this regard, please let us know!

[RErender]

Another method, would be to create a spline from the edges to be beveled and use bevel profile or loft to create the lip.

[jujubee]

thanks rerender for the tip. apologies for my modeling newbie ignorance- by creating a spline from the edges you mean selecting the spline along the edge and detaching it or somehow cloning it? If I just select the spline without detaching the only options i get are extrude and chamfer which never quite works the way I intend it to around corners.

-ps. - is it just my imagination or is render theory a new category and how did this topic fall into this container? thought I posted to the off-topic category...

[RErender]

In edge mode of both EM's and polys you can select a group of edges and use "create shape" to detatach a spline created by the selected edges, make sure to use "linear" , weld vertices if necessary.

[jujubee]

ahh... very good to know! Thanks Rerender you are the best!!!!