Increasing Curve Segments on a scaled oval circle

[kingsi]

Hi Guys. I have spent hours trying to work this one out and I am officially stuck. I really do not want to redraw a bunch of stuff again. So here is my question.

I drew an oval by originally starting with a circle that I then stretched into an oval using the scale tool. When I went to render I was not happy with the curve so I went into "entity info" then segments. When I tried to input a greater number I was unable to change the info in the box.

Any Ideas would be most welcome

K

[Gaieus]

Change the circle's segments beforeyou modify its geometry.

[kingsi]

Doh

I thought you were going to say that. Thanks for the quick response. Looks like I am redrawing the sections again (boo hoo)

[charly2008]

Hi,

you can also use the ellipse.rb and set the precision
http://rhin.crai.archi.fr/rld/plugin_details.php?id=124

Charly

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[cotty]

Is there a subdivision property in your render engine which smoothes the rendered mesh during export without changing the geometry itself?

[Jean Lemire]

Hi Kingsi, hi folks.

Maybe this SU file might give you ideas to simplify the task of recreating those ellipses.

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Changing segmentation of an ellipse.skp

[kingsi]

Just found these replies from my earlier posting back in January. Sorry I did not see them and I apologise for not thanking you all.

[jeff hammond]

future reference:

if you have BezierSpline installed:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=13563

right click on the oval then BZ- Convert to --> Catmull Spline.

it will smooth the oval out very nicely.

(default is 7 segments which will place 5 new vertices in between each existing vertex.. so, if you want to double the amount of segments, enter 3s for the precision.. 4s triples the segments etc)

[brookefox]

~ no bump, but to Jeff, and Jean ~

great tips:

BZ- Convert to --> Catmull Spline

and

recreate ellipse with increased segments the easy JL way