12th June 2018, 04:21 PM | #1 |
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How to get a path from a circle?
Hello,
I'm just working on a model from a plane and become now desperate of trying to get a path out a circle object. As you can see in the picture I need a path that is about the red drawn line. Thought a circle would be a good point to start. Just had to adjust the vertices a bit and then I'm done. But when I tried to erase one vertex, hopping I would receive an open path then AC3D just draw a line between the left vertex so that it remains a closed line. Tried all I could find to get it broken (knife, extrude and erase the surfaces, creating objects from the vertices only, unwelding a vertex, line and polyline…) but with no success. As you can see in the second picture it locked that I got what I was looking for with object 2. But as you see AC3D won't accept that path to extrude a object along it (thats what I need the path for). Is there something special about a circle object so that you couldnt convert it? Hope anyone could help. Regards & Thanks Frank |
14th June 2018, 02:00 AM | #2 |
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Re: How to get a path from a circle?
Meanwhile I got it managed somehow. Don't ask me how.
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14th June 2018, 03:40 AM | #3 |
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Re: How to get a path from a circle?
Nice pictures. If you create a circle then switch the surface type to polyline, you'll see a gap appear. you can then use Surface->change-vertex-order to move the "gap".
Alternatively - draw a line in a roughly circular shape and then use Vertex->spherize to push the vertices into a circle. The order of selection for extrude-along-path matters. Select the surface you want to extrude first, then the path, then select the function. |
14th June 2018, 05:48 AM | #4 |
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Re: How to get a path from a circle?
Thanks Andy,
the tip with changing the vertex order to move the gap is very helpful. Works for me after I change the mode to line. Guess I tried every else before. For the future I will rotate the gap to the preferred position before placing the circle. But here I had rotated the circle as poly or polyline before and the gap was in wrong position when I discovered how to see it. Regards Frank |
14th June 2018, 01:46 PM | #5 |
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Re: How to get a path from a circle?
Now it's done!
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