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    • pilouP Offline
      pilou
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      Frenchy Pilou
      Is beautiful that please without concept!
      My Little site :)

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        Pherim
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        Thank you for your suggestions so far. I already use curviloft, although not specifically for this purpose. It would be great to have a plugin that really goes to a point in the end, but if there is no plugin like this, I will have to stick to doing it manually.

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          TIG Moderator
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          @Pherim

          Both CurviLoft and EEbyRails will make the 'horn' form, but you need to specify two 'rails' along the skin itself, and make it in two halves...


          Capture.PNG

          TIG

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          • pilouP Offline
            pilou
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            Seems Draw Metal / "Draw a Taper" makes exactly that you want! πŸ˜‰

            Last Icone

            http://www.drawmetal.com/_/rsrc/1268959040068/toolbars-large.tiff?height=48&width=420

            Select any path ( a welded curve)
            Select your form section from the PopUp Menu (here Round)
            round_menu.jpg

            Enter first Size Diameter, second Size diameter
            As 0 is not permited take something like 0.01 πŸ˜‰

            Number of Sides of the section (here 24)
            Position of the Path (here Center)

            pipes_horn.jpg

            et voilΓ ! πŸ˜„

            Ps Of course "sharpness" of the curve is depending of the number of segments of the curve!


            pipes.jpg

            Frenchy Pilou
            Is beautiful that please without concept!
            My Little site :)

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            • pilouP Offline
              pilou
              last edited by

              Quick Lathe by Trogluddite can also make the horn! πŸ˜‰

              http://sketchucation.com/forums/download/file.php?id=103960&t=1

              http://sketchucation.com/forums/download/file.php?id=103961

              Frenchy Pilou
              Is beautiful that please without concept!
              My Little site :)

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              • massimoM Offline
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                @unknownuser said:

                Seems Draw Metal / "Draw a Taper" makes exactly that you want! πŸ˜‰

                Really? πŸ˜‰

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                • pilouP Offline
                  pilou
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                  @Massimo

                  After reading your post Pherin has written!

                  @unknownuser said:

                  It would be great to have a plugin that really goes to a point in the end, but if there is no plugin like this, I will have to stick to doing it manually.

                  So I show him that was possible! πŸ˜‰

                  Frenchy Pilou
                  Is beautiful that please without concept!
                  My Little site :)

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                  • P Offline
                    Pherim
                    last edited by

                    Ah, thank you, I already downloaded Tapermaker, but I haven't tried it out yet. Thanks for showing me that it can do what I want. Will try it out soon! But as you wrote, 0 is not allowed as an end value, so I still will have to draw the end manually. I really don't want any face at the end, no matter how small. But this seems to be very close to what I want.

                    But is it actually impossible to make such a plugin or has just nobody done it yet?

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                    • pilouP Offline
                      pilou
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                      @unknownuser said:

                      so I still will have to draw the end manually.

                      You drawn not, and nothing to select on the screen, you just enter a value! πŸ˜‰

                      Frenchy Pilou
                      Is beautiful that please without concept!
                      My Little site :)

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                      • P Offline
                        Pherim
                        last edited by

                        Yes I have, since there is never a point at the end, which is what I want, there is always still a circle and I definitely have to draw the end manually. Apparently, there is no such plugin that really does what I want, but the ones that are mentioned here are quite close.

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