How do I extrude a 2D profile along multiple lines at once?
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I'm in the process of turning a 2D design pattern into 3D openwork tracery. What I've been doing is using the Follow Me tool for each individual curve. I've been trying to find a different method that would save time by allowing me to take a 2D profile and extrude it on all of the selected curves instead of doing each one at a time. Attached picture is results after 30-40 minutes of work using follow me.
The closest thing I've found is the lines to tubes plugin, but that obviously only creates cylinders. I've used Extrude Tools a lot for my work; extrude edges by faces sounds like what I need but that specific tool doesn't seem to work at all.
If anyone has a solution please let me know.
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You can't do multiple extrusions at the same time. It looks to me as if there are a number of repeated shapes, though. You could be making good use of components and use the same extrusions more than once which would save you a lot of time. I would be making solid components so I could trim them with Eneroth Solid Tools at the ends to get the correct shapes.
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Another way MIGHT be to use 'line to tube" plugin. Perhaps you could turn the lines into tubes and squash the result to make them ovaloid. Just a thought
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'1001 bits Pro' has some extrusion tools to test.
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