How to combine lines and curves?
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Hi,
I think my picture will say what i mean. I drew a lot of lines in SU. And i want to bring some of them together,
so that i can move them. I know I can hold Strg and mark them. But thats not what I want.If I klick right on a line, then I can choose that SU show me all connected lines. Thats fine. But if i klick outside again, the mark is gone.
But if I draw an arc composed of many individual lines with the SU tools, then they are all marked together!
Is there any way to get this with my lines? Thank you
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Hello Pilou,
thank you again
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Plugin Weld at Smustard by Rick Wilson
(it's free)
One of the most important plug for any other plugs!
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OK, one last Question about lines:
Thx the Plugin "Weld" I can mark my lines very easy. But now they are still in 2D.
My lines are "Contour lines" or "Isohypses".I want to bring them in 3D. What I need to do is to mark one Start-Line and then push her up to 1m.
Then I mark the next an push her also up. And the next again. All Lines I will push up exactly 1 meter.At the end, I use the sandbox to project areas.
But this are soooooooooo many lines I need to push up by hand. Is there not any qay to do this a little faster?
It would also help if I could mark the lines by key and not by mouse. One after the over with simple klicks.
Then I coukd use my "Mouse- Recorder-Tool".I know it will probably not perfect but I think there shoukd be a way to make this work faster.
Any ideas?Thank you very much
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Form flat faces between the 'flat' contours - perhaps simply draw some lines across their open ends until they 'face'. If they don't form a face then there's a gap - if you line Style has a distinctive line end-marker these are easier to spot and heal - you might have already noticed that some contours don't weld if there are small gaps in them...
Now you have a series of faces each representing a 'plateau' in the contours - but at the moment they are all at z=0!
PushPull a face up 1m.
The last used PushPull value is remembered, so the next PushPull can be done with a double-click on another face.
Now simply go round double-clicking the face or top face a recently PushPulled face until they are all at the desired heights.
Now tidy up by using the Eraser tool to remove the lower version[s] of each extruded contour.
You now have your contours at the correct z-heights without having to try and move them vertically by a set amount etc...
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Hey TIG,
thats good, it work fine. I will use this. One question to the push/pull tool.
You wrote I must doubleklick on the next face. If I oush upt the first face 1 m, then I need to push uo the second face 2m, then 3 ,4,5 and so on. The push pull tool always push 1 m. So is must doubleklick anywhen very very often.
It is so far the best and perfect way,
may perhaps the push pull tool can count with anyhow?Thank you
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If it's 3m you must double-click 3 times - but it's not too onerous...
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and what not just click one time and type on the numeric keyboard length wished?
Very easy if it's integer meters
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