Curve won't trim surface

I thought that when a curve was 3D it would automatically get pulled to the surface for trimming?

But not in this case it seems:

curve-wont-trim-surface.3dm (123.3 KB)

Curve is closed and polysurface has no gaps

What is the issue?

the behaviour is a bit different for surfaces and polysurfaces.
your example is a polysurface.
_explode
it and then
_trim
the 3 individual surfaces
_join
them back together

use
_gcon (on the new edges, between the surfaces/faces)
and
_EdgeContinuity
to check if the result still is what you re after…

to see the deviation
_crvDeviation
from the initial curve and the new (pulled) edge

hope this helps - kind regards -tom

Hi Robert -

I’ve put this on the list as RH-84408 Trim: Fails on Polysurface
-wim

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