The goal of this project was to convert an original wooden handmade model of a violin, made by an expert luthier John Dailey, and convert it to to a clean Nurbs 3D model, ready for CNC milling.

The challenge was to get the average continuous surfaces using CAD, starting from a dense mesh of the original violin scanned in 3D.

In this case most of the surfaces were created using Rhinoceros 3D and carefully analyzed to guarantee the best possible surface. Most of the surfaces created were single span bezier patches.

I enjoyed the process and learned something new about music instruments.