I’m working on rendering a pair of shoes to be 3d printed. I’ve created the curves for the sole, but when I apply the “Curve From 2 Views” command I get no results. I split the horizontal curve to see if that would help and was able to get half of the curve to generate the correct results, but no matter what I try I still get nothing from the other half. The strange thing is it’s not giving me any errors, just nothing happens. Any ideas what I I should be looking for to correct this issue?
Did you start the command, then press F1 to get to the Help article, and watch the little video snippet?
I have watched the help video, although given the simplicity of this particular tool there’s not much to it.
Hi Jessica - just export the curves to a new file and post them here- we’ll take a look.
-Pascal
Hi Jessica - for some reason (I’m still poking at it) the complex curve is not a valid curve (Check command). Select it, Explode and Join again - that sorts it out. My guess is there is a very short segment someplace.
-Pascal
That did it - thanks so much!
Hi Jessica - zoom in really close on the points of the zig-zags - some of these have very very small loops.
That is not in itself making the curve invalid but you might want to clean up. Try:
Explode, deselect all, SelShortCrv > .01, and then Delete. Then Join what’s left.
-Pascal
I just saw your latest message. I was able to get the curves to reshape and loft the surface of my sole, no problems. I’m now trying to Sweep 2 Rails around the heel and I’m having the same problem - one side works, but not the other. Could the small loops be the issue? (Although, it’s now the opposite side that’s causing the issue. Of course.)
Hmm yeah… I think I’d back up a few steps here - the surface object has some self-intersections all along the ziggy part - I’d make a clean surface across here and trim to the vertical surfaces rather than try to define the surface from the ‘un-clean’ edges. I’ll see if I can make an example.
-Pascal
I was able to get it to work eventually. I regenerated the curves off of the surface, exploded and rejoined them and it finally came together. Phew!