CANOPY FRAME

The procedure is to duplicate Perspex canopy object.  Make “cuts” through it to create points at the right places and enough of them so that the polygons that make up the surface can be deleted leaving only the surfaces where the canopy frame would be.  The “color” of the frame would then still be Perspex.  So I had to create a new color/texture just for that section.  The problem is: I am not adept at avoiding so-called n-gons (polygons with more than 4 sides) which are “badness”.  I eliminated a couple of them but there are still more.  I have to research that.  I then made the canopy frame a “subdivision surface” so it renders nice and smooth instead of with the jagged point-to-point of the bigger polygon surfaces that are not “smoothed” in the process.  The result is shown.  Yes, it needs a lot of editing but it is a breakthrough for me.  Now I get to stumble around and read a bunch of irrelevant tutorials but eventually I will find “answers”