×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

Freestyle - Control point curve on a plane

Freestyle - Control point curve on a plane

Freestyle - Control point curve on a plane

(OP)
Hi,

I'm using the freestyle workbench and I cant find a way to constrain a control point curve to a plane. It seems there is/used to be a "curve on plane" tool that I cant find that might have done what I want. I can set the compass so the control points can only be moved in a certain plane, but it doesn't lock them from being moved in another direction if the compass isn't set correctly. Am I missing something? This is a simple task in UG.

Thanks.

RE: Freestyle - Control point curve on a plane

Use the Projection command to project the Point onto the Plane.

RE: Freestyle - Control point curve on a plane

Or create the control points in a scetch...

CATIA V5 R20
PC-DMIS 2011 MR1

RE: Freestyle - Control point curve on a plane

(OP)
It seems that creating points separately on a plane and then constraining the spline control points to them is the closest solution, but its very cumbersome. In NX I can create a control point spline and freely drag around the control points, or change the curve degree, while always staying constrained to a separate plane (which I can modify and have the spline update). I don't understand why they removed the 'curve on plane' tool - it looks like that did what I need.

RE: Freestyle - Control point curve on a plane

Working Supports might do what you want. I'm not sure if it's available in Freestyle Design though.

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources