Array along Curve: Roadlike doesn't work as expected

Rhino Rhino for Windows
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I made a video to show you how this does not work properly. So the alignment of the rings is not evenly distributed based on the flow of the curve. |
Just wanted to easily create a pipe with a profile as you might guess.

thank you for any help with this.

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Flow Along Curve does also not distribute the items esp in the round corner, as you see it will inflate the items.

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Array should work but it is difficult to see in your YouTube video what you’re actually doing.

I think you’re selecting a basepoint away from your torus…

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Here’s a screenshot of an array with the basepoint in the center of the tours:

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I still don’t see the benefit of uploading a videeo to youtube vs. uploading the video directly into a post???

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@martinsiegrist Thank you. It works now :slight_smile:

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Have you read through this old thread on armored hoses:

Your pictures look like that’s more or less what you are trying to model.

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Thank you @AlW thinking of me :slight_smile:

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Hello friends,

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I see ppl have had the same issue and it happing to me I can’t keep the objects to stay uniformed my prongs go off and do their own thing I need help

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The prongs are always going to struggle when laid out like this. In your layout they are attached to the end of the gems, not calculated between the gems.

I would suggest looking at Rhino 9’s new ArrayCrv feature “Between” It can be very helpful for this type of workflow as it generates a between orientation plane between each of the gems which will help the prongs rotate independently vs just hanging off of the end of the gems.