Tip: Creating an N-Sided Surface
The shape of the N-sided patch depends on the geometry of the boundaries to be patched together. For some boundaries, the N-sided patch may produce geometry with undesirable shape and characteristics. For example, bad geometry may occur if
• The boundaries have inflections
• The angles between the boundary segments are very large (more than 160º) or very small (less than 20º)
• The boundaries consist of very long and very short segments
If the N-sided patch does not create a satisfactory geometry, you can either create a series of N-sided patches on a smaller number of boundaries, or use the Blended Surf functionality.