Help! Scaling with constraints!
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Most of the model is done, except now all I need is a few operations:
- The glass balustrade currently breaks up into 1200mm section panels, when scaled in the X direction it remains constrained and includes a 12mm break between each panel. What I NEED now is for the panels to have a threshold from 1200-1400mm before they start duplicating.
For this I've tried using >= and <= also ROUND,NEAREST,SMALLEST functions and so forth...to no avail.
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Although the material has been set prior to duplication, the certain elements of the material on a sub-object level seem to automatically reset themselves...which has never happened before...
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The rail is unpredictable and although not a major issue it is just a pain in the ass not seeing your model work to your ideal design, it is supposed to remain constrained to the absolute extents of the glass in the X axis.
I'm interested to see what the pro's have to say about this because I've given up math a long time ago since high school haha.
Thanks in advance =]
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Some questions....
Why the X position of the Rail is =Glass Balustrade!X ? If you move all de Glass Balustrade DC the rail move too IN it. The X position must be =0 because his origin is in the glass balustrade DC.
In your Glass Group, the Copies value is =Glass Balustrade!LenX/LenX-1 so is not an integer (or rarely). For the Copies it's ok, it's rounded, but the real value is not an integer. So if you use this value in an other function, be careful, the float value is used. So you must use the INT() function.When there are too many calculations in child components with parent references, I prefer put them in the parent component and child will read it.
Here my version of all I understand you want to do, with a light version of your balustrade. -
Daredevil Thank you,Thank you,Thank you!!!
You saved me a lot of time and headaches, I'm still not that advanced when it comes to Dynamic components =\
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@hutdowg said:
You saved me a lot of time and headaches, I'm still not that advanced when it comes to Dynamic components =\
Me too
DC is a kind of maze, dont really know what's working or not, and why... Only tests and expreriences to build some own rules and share them here.
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