Shape Bender producing weird geometry at angles
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OK, so when I go to use Shape Bender, I'm having a few issues with the geometry it's producing. I'm working on a fence at the moment. When I run Shape Bender, the top part of my fence follows the curve nicely, while the bottom part just goes in a straight line, like this.
Is there something I'm doing wrong? I've tried softening some of the points on the path but that still produced the same result unfortunately. I've tried exploding the components inside of the group to no avail. I've attached the model as well.
Thanks
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I was able to duplicate that initially. I cleaned up the model--there are a bunch of unneeded internal edges and I drew a new straight line from left to right (yours was drawn from right to left and apparently in the opposite direction from the way you drew the "curve". I welded the curve and ran Shape Bender. It worked fine.
Shape Bender isn't really the right tool for the job. Or if you really want to use it, you should change your component to omit the posts supporting the wire. As it is, posts end up just around corners so the wire bends between posts which it shouldn't do.
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Cheers. Is there something else that would do this job better than Shape Bender?
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I'd use Follow Me and insert the posts afterward. Draw the end of the fence as a profile positioned at right angles to one end of the curve. Make the wire section a face at least temporarily so Follow Me will work on it. You can delete the unneeded faces after extrusion. Then place the posts as separate components. Placing the posts separately will allow you to position them properly and distribute them equally between corners.
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If yo are happy to spend a little money, Profile Builder 2 might be right up your street.
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=61283%26amp;hilit=profile+builder -
Profile builder is a great suggestion. and if you have more than one of these to do, it would probably pay for itself in very short order.
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Cheers. Will definitely have a play around with Profile Builder. That looks extremely useful for a lot of things. Thanks
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