I’ve piped a spiral and am attempting to have it deform along the target curve. I’ve drawn a polyline with the original model to use as reference when doing the flow command. The issue is that the end result is often not deformed in a manner, often times looking like its been sheared or simply rotated to an average of the curve instead of being fitted. Am i doing something wrong?
Upload a .3dm file with the object to be flowed, the base curve, the target curve, and result you are getting. You can upload a file using the vertical arrow icon above where you type a post.
This describes the result of flowing a single object with Rigid=Yes, although there may be a different cause. You may want to double check that Rigid=No.
I use Windows, not Mac, and am unfamilar with the Mac interface. There is nothing about the Rigid option for the Flow command in the image you posted. The only check boxes I see are for Osnaps and the options for the Shade view mode.
In your file the line and the adjacent piped helices are grouped. If the line is to be used as the base curve in Flow then it needs to be separate from the object to be flowed.
Yes, it is. When that line get selected as “an object to flow”, you can’t also select that as the “base curve”. You can keep those grouped and either sub-object select the spiral object when prompted for objects to flow and then sub-object select the curve, or, if you also want to flow that curve, use the Line option to set the line when prompted for a base curve.
-wim
Ok tried that, didn’t work. I think im selecting something wrong when prompted to draw a line. I’m not able to deform properly either with another open surface object that does not have a base line in its grouping.
Three different things were suggested - I’m not sure what you tried…
There are many objects in the file that you posted previously. Can you post a file with just (1) that object to flow, (2) a base curve, and (3) a target curve?
-wim
