I took the file my friend had sent me and sized it to six feet tall in EnRoute.
I then drew two vector shapes which I would use to modify the original relief. I drew them with the render on to get them in the correct position. The pill shaped piece was the relief we would use to remove the ribs and the square shape zero height relief would be used to trim the pill shape to the correct length.
The first new relief I created was done using the dome tool. The angle was set to 90 degrees which gave me a full round shape (half).
When I hit render the ribs were hidden with this new shape.
I then created a zero height relief using the square vectors.
To trim it to length I would use merge highest with the pill relief. I followed the commands using my rectangle flat relief as the base relief.
After going through the merge using REPLACE I checked the progress with a render.
Things looked pretty good so now it was time to merge this replacement piece with the original spark plug relief. Once again I used the replace command.
After doing the merging it was time for a visual check. After combining the reliefs I noticed the left hand side had a slight ridge whee the two pieces joined. If I was worried about this I would have to back up a few steps and adjust things but to me it looked like this could easily and quickly be taken care of with a little sand paper when we are finished reassembling it. I would go as is.
Now it was time for some slicing which I will cover in the next post.
