Drop plugin?

[essendeenut]

Linear problem.

Dear All,

I am trying to make a railway cab-ride view animation and am a bit stuck with the track. I have lots of gradient changes and curves which I’ve smoothed out using roundcorner. I have then draped the imported image traced tracks and draped them onto the “trackbed”

But I now want to use pathcopy to copy a railway sleeper and its attached pieces of rail along the undulating and curving path so I may then go back and make each 30 inch component unique and rotate it in 1/8 inch increments to give the effect of transition camber on various curves (super elevation)

I cannot think of any other way to do this. But my problem is the drop plugin, as far as I know, only drops an object onto a level planing. This is no good if I want to drop a sleeper / rail component onto the plane of a gradient.

Any ideas?

[pilou]

Seems you have a drop plug at intersection at right click

But yes the object don't align to the slope
We must find another trick
Component onto face by Chris Fullmer ?

But yes that put the object just at the middle of the face
We must find another trick

Smart drop ? by a4architect

Ray Tracer ? by Thomthom

[pilou]

Or this post ?

else the Thomthom Ray tracer / Components by Bounds above works very fine
but without image from you I have some difficulties to see what you want
Components or groups must be horizontal above the object before the drop !