Make a shape follow a curved line (like a necklace)
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Plug: Path copy/ Copy to path nodes or Copy to spacing
by Rick Wilson at Smustard
Or make your form along a straight line and uses Shape Bender by Chris Fullmer
or Fredo Scale by Fredo6 -
thanks for your quick answer, pilou...
i had path copy installed already, but as you may see in the new image i cannot get the effect i'm looking - what am i doing wrong?
shape bender doesn't seem appropriate to this case because i had to have a straight and a curved with exactly the same size, which would get me into more problems...
how could fredo scale help?
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modelhead, i use sk7 free so no style builder for me... though you're correct, one easy way is to make a custom line (like in cad program) and make a curve afterwards using it...
but what i'd like (because we could use it with 2d or 3d objects) is some trick that picks first and last points of the shape and use a line (straight, curved, tridimensional, whatever) where to place that points -
yes, with shape bender it gets "fine"
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Shape bender works fine
Just trim extremities
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with shape bender it's possible to make this without minimal distortion (according to initial shape) only if you put the group of shapes along the reference line; if not, shapes will bend according to the radius of the curve...
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@unknownuser said:
So therefore the need to group. Grouping also eliminates the need to trim anything as the groups stay intact
Cool so just ungroup at the end and kill the line
Edit you can't
all lines result are in a same group
So something to ask to ChrisBecause even his tricky Plug "Select line by length" don't work in this case for kill some lines!!!
You must use it in several time
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I am currently in need of a similar thing as I want to copy a series of vertical battens to wrap around a curved wall.
A 'copy along path' ruby which rotates the instances with the curve radius would be a nice thing to have... -
@kwistenbiebel said:
I am currently in need of a similar thing as I want to copy a series of vertical battens to wrap around a curved wall.
A 'copy along path' ruby which rotates the instances with the curve radius would be a nice thing to have...Copy along Path with Rotation hasn't got perfected yet... If the path is an arc then you can Rotate+Copy the battens but otherwise it's a manual adjustment...
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Thanks TIG for the info. I hope it will be available in the future. Especially for architecture and curved facade stuff this would be very useful.
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May be this: Perpendicular Face Tools by Chris Fullmer can take place in the tool box we need for that kind of work
[Request]: It should be time dear Rick (Wilson) to improve this excellent and necessary PathCopy.
simon
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simon
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