Please help a noob with Maya and NURBS

BARDLER

I am trying to model a couch as the book I am reading recommends this as good practice with NURBS. Ref picture I picked http://www.sleepshop.co.za/images/MontClos_sleeper_couch_large.JPG

Here is my issue I currently have the basic shape of my couch except I can not get a surface for the front/back.

I would imagine I would just do a planar surface but it does not work, maya gives me a warning and just saying cannot do that. I really have no clue how to about doing this since the book did not go into super fine detail about patching in more complicated surfaces.

If you think I am approaching this all wrong please give me a hint on the right way to start a NURBS model like this.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

r_fletch_r

Why have you chosen to model in nurbs? Unless you have a specific reason to be using them you'd probably be better of learning to poly model.

passerby

why not just do SubD modeling

BARDLER

r_fletch_r wrote: »

Why have you chosen to model in nurbs? Unless you have a specific reason to be using them you'd probably be better of learning to poly model.

I am not a fan of NURBS at all but the book suggests to model it using NURBS for practice. I think I could do a decent polygon model of the couch and use SubD's to create the roundness of the couch.