Hello, I’m trying to engrave a pattern into a ring, and all but ONE of the polysurfaces subtracted properly from the ring’s surface. Any ideas on what’s happening here?
As you can see in the screenshots below there is a mysterious hole in the solid ring’s surface that doesn’t appear when looking at the inside surface of the ring.
Thanks in advance for your help!
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Hello - this is a problem, occasionally, with Flow/FlowAlongSrf that I’ve encountered a bit more than I like lately - the flowed surfaces are refit to a fairly dense structure and the control points tend to get jumbled - the surfaces that start off vertical end up folding on themselves at a microscopic level.
Here, I moved one point slightly out of line so you can see the fold/overlap at the surface edge (arrow)
On this object, to get your work done, you can do the following and it should work:
Explode the flowed part.FitSrf to .001, DeleteInput=Yes. This will remove a lot of control points and return a thing that is, hopefully, slightly simpler and not folded.Join and Join to the top and bottom surface.I don’t know if there is anything we can do to make this more reliable for small objects like this but I’ll try to corner a developer and see what he thinks.
-Pascal
Thanks Pascal! I simplified the vector in AI, and then imported it again. It worked!