What's happening here?

[Will J]

Hey guys, this is my first post. This looks like a great forum! Hopefully someone can help me with a bit of trouble I'm having. Can anyone tell me whats happening in this picture:



If any of you guys know how to sort it out that would be great! Its the bow of a ship I'm modelling, and I will be 3D printing it at the end. This may not affect the print, but I just don't like having unresolved problems. I get this problem alot with rhino, its a great program, but sometimes it drives me crackers .

Will.

EDIT: Darn, this should really have gone in the ask for help forum, sorry mods! I guess you'll have to move it. Oops.

[Ivan]

when you get weird surfaces, first thing to check is meshing options in Rhino.
Go to Tools->Options->Mesh and select Custom. Click OK and check if your surfaces still look weird. If they do, then it is the problem with modeling.

[Will J]

That got it, thanks a million !

Edit: Oh and while I'm at it, when I select an object that is close to others and the box pops up with all the closeby objects on it, the object only flash yellow once and then go grey again, instead of being highlighted constantly. This is really annoying, I can't see what I'm picking. Is this a graphics glitch?

[gery]

hmm no idea what that is. Try disabling the accelerating hardware for OpenGL in Rhino, maybe it helps maybe not. I'm running Rhino via parallels on a Mac, and I have to disable that or else I get all sort of things like the one u mention