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Is there a way to take two arbitrary BSplineCurves and create a loft surface? I would like to then create a mesh to send to NDSolveValue.

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Clear["`*"];
f = BSplineFunction[RandomReal[{-1, 1}, {4, 3}]];
g = BSplineFunction[RandomReal[{-1, 1}, {3, 3}]];
movingline = ParametricPlot3D[f[u], {u, 0, 1}, PlotStyle -> Red];
baseline = 
  ParametricPlot3D[g[v] + f[0] - g[0], {v, 0, 1}, PlotStyle -> Blue];
surface = 
  ParametricPlot3D[g[u] + f[v] - g[0], {u, 0, 1}, {v, 0, 1}, 
   MeshFunctions -> (#4 &), MeshStyle -> Pink, 
   PlotStyle -> LightGreen, PlotRange -> All];
Show[surface, baseline, movingline, Boxed -> False]

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ToBoundaryMesh is also work, so it can be use in FEM

reg = DiscretizeGraphics[surface]
<< NDSolve`FEM`
loftmesh = ToBoundaryMesh[reg]
loftmesh["Wireframe"]

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Do you mean something like this?

acc = 10
curv1 = Table[{Cos[u], Sin[u], 1.}, {u, Subdivide[0, 2 Pi - 2 Pi/acc, acc]}];
curv2 = Table[{.2 Cos[u], .2 Sin[u], -1.}, {u,Subdivide[0, 2 Pi - 2 Pi/acc, acc]}];

sur = BSplineSurface[{curv1, curv2}, SplineClosed -> {False, True}, SplineDegree -> 3];
surfun = BSplineFunction[{curv1, curv2}, SplineClosed -> {False, True}, SplineDegree -> 3];

Graphics3D[sur]

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Generating the Mesh then from surfun should be straight forward.

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  • $\begingroup$ Thanks guys! I don't know why it was so hard to cypher this out of the help structure. This has me going in the right direction! Best! $\endgroup$
    – user57215
    Oct 13, 2020 at 22:27

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