Hi All,

I’m beginning to plan for changes to the Advanced Part Modeling course for 2017 and have some thoughts about changing the Spline lesson.  Since this lesson has grown quite a bit with detailed information and examples of different spline types, I feel it could be trimmed down some.  I’m currently thinking that the Fleur-de-lis example might be better as an exercise and perhaps the case study would  benefit from something simpler and more succinct.

I really like the example, but I think the fact that there are so many splines involved in completing it means that instructors are not finishing it or they are having the students finish it as an exercise anyway.

The question is, if we were to make this change, what would be a good replacement?

I was thinking of turning the Acoustic Guitar Body (from the table on Manipulating Splines) into a case study, but am worried this might be too simple.

Does anyone out there have any opinions?

Do you think the Fluer-de-lis would be more valuable to the students as an exercise?  Do you think the Guitar might be too simple to replace it? Would it be worth finding a new sketch picture that includes more than one spline for the example?  Or should we just leave it the way it is?

Are there other things in this lesson that you love or hate?  I’d be interested to hear them!  I'm just in the very preliminary stages of reviewing this course, so now is a great time to communicate your ideas and suggestions

Thanks!

-Rebekah