Lengthen a tapered tube
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I need to make a form to press 5 layers of wood veneer to make a half tube. For a the front tube creating the form was no problem. The top tube tapers in 2 planes. The form to press the veneers would need to be larger than the tube. Scaling up the tube does not maintain the taper. See the guide lines as to where I would project the taper to be. How do I stretch the tube uniformly a few inches longer at both ends? Seems like this should be straight forward what am I missing?
Thanks
Jeff
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You may need to redraw the tube using a plug-in like Curviloft.
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David
I am hoping to avoid redrawing the tube as the joints at the ends are a bit of a pain for me to get right. If I do redraw I will start with the form first.
Thanks
Jeff -
Have you tried a right to left select at each end then using the move tool. The taper does not change but tube width reqmnts will because for the increase in length. It may be better to do a section cut in the middle and move from there. The above mention Freedo plugin also has a stretch function.
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Because there are no 'cross-divisions', if you select all of the end geometry [by fence] you can Move it to were you want, stretching the middle facets to match. The end geometry will then just be in a different location but unaffected by the Move. The connecting [unselected] facets will have been stretched to suit...
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Thanks for the suggestions for the move by fence, but when I select the end by fence and extend the tube, the taper does not change left to right. Not sure it the taper changes in the other plane. I was hoping to easily extend the tube to have the taper grow or shrink on the ends, this would need to be in 2 planes. I will look at the plug in later.
Thanks
Jeff
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