Dividing a curve not an arc
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I know you can divide an arc but how can i divide a curve? Is there a ruby that will allow you to do this similar to SU's divide command? Tracing the curve is not a good option.
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I think Fredo's BezierSpline will let you reshape curves: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=13563
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Tom,
I right click on any Su entitiy and use the divide command which higlight the grips. The command does not show up in the menu when you right click on a curve. I cant reshape it. The face is already in place and i want to draw a line down the curve face at equal intervals.
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Never realised that was available for Curves. Thought it was only Edges. Yet SketchUp reveals features I wasn't aware of.
I'm not aware of any plugins that do what you request. But it should not be too difficult. Are you thinking something in the lines of divide where one specify the number of divides, or divide with length?
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The Divide command works on Edges to split them into pieces, if you use it on certain sorts of Curve - like an unbounded Arc it's equivalent to resetting the Segment count in Entity Info.
Divide won't work on other types of Curves or 'welded' curves.
Fredo's toolbar does let you change the Segment count in unbounded Bezier Curves etc....
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yeah,thats correct. I have an existing welded curve that i needed to divide equally. There must be a way to divide an existing entity that originally begin with different segment sizes.
It would be ideal if it worked like the divide command. Are we suggesting tracing over the curve with Fredo's BezierSpline is the best approach? -
old post my give you some insite http://groups.google.com/group/SketchUp3d/browse_thread/thread/cfbd13e717549bf2/b94bfac372ee1df1?q=quidditch&lnk=nl&
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great find. Thats exactly what i ended up doing, used the poly segmenter.
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