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can you make a multisegment curve become one segment?

can you make a multisegment curve become one segment?

can you make a multisegment curve become one segment?

(OP)
I am doing surface lofting with conic surfaces.  When I make a tangent intercept curve, quite often it ends up being composed of a join of smaller curves.  When I make the surface, it ends up with a corresponding patchwork of surfaces.
As a crude fix, I put a string of points along the tangent intercept curve, and use the spline function to make one curve.
There must be a better way.

RE: can you make a multisegment curve become one segment?

edit your join curve and use Federation ALL

This should use your curve as one segment


RE: can you make a multisegment curve become one segment?

Hi.
You could also try curve smooth in GSD and tick the box that says "topology simplification" or/and change the tolerance values.

RE: can you make a multisegment curve become one segment?

(OP)
Thank you both for the help.  The curve smooth function works, but I can't find where the edit Federation ALL is.  I looked in the formula edit box, but didn't see 'Federation'.

RE: can you make a multisegment curve become one segment?

Try this:




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RE: can you make a multisegment curve become one segment?

For those that can't see the pictures like I.
 
Federation is a sub function(tab) under 'Join'

It's quite irritating not beeing able to see the pics in this forum. I just made a clean install on my old laptop but I still end up seeing no pictures in this forum (actually how do you post a screen capture in this forum? Catiav5forum.de is simple to use and pics are no problem why is it so tricky here? If it is a missing plug-in normally you would be prompted to install it?

RE: can you make a multisegment curve become one segment?

To post, you need to use TGML, and you can get the complete list of functions by clicking the "Process TGML" link at the bottom of the reply input box. (right above "submit post")

I don't know what plug-in you would need for this.  I have been posting .jpg files, linked from one of my websites.  All of the processing should be done through the BB application, and delivered to your browser in a readable format.




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RE: can you make a multisegment curve become one segment?

That little red X you see in my post above is my attempt to add the same image that Matt added.

I tried to link to an image that was on my c: drive, while Matt says he linked from one of his websites. Apparently that makes a difference??? Can you link to a harddrive?

Why can't we just copy & paste?

Thanks JuhaEdag for writing out the description of the Join tool!

RE: can you make a multisegment curve become one segment?


- jackk,
Your little red X shows in it's Properties an invalid URL, http://c:/temp/federate.bmp
which shows the picture is on your hard disk instead of a web server.

It's not necessary to have your own website(s), just use one of the free image hosting sites, like Photobucket.com.
I tend to use Imagecave.com, there are plenty of them.

RE: can you make a multisegment curve become one segment?

Back to the Federate question, I believe that you need a GSD or HD2 license to be able to use it.

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