Flow along surface on joined surfaces

[Despaul (Pierre)]

Hi Everyone,

I am trying to apply a pattern on an object made of different surfaces. I unrolled the surfaces and placed my pattern on the unrolled surfaces. however when applying the flow along surface i can only apply a pattern on one face.
Is there a way to apply the flow along surface on many surfaces at a time?

Thanks in advance!

Paul

[vikthor]

Use the Flow command

[Despaul (Pierre)]

Thanks it works,
But is it possible to have a flow along surface on many surfaces at a time?

Also I tried rebuilding the initial base curve so that when i extrude it it only creates a single one, i was able to apply the flow along surface but the circles on the flat surfaces are a bit shrinks horizontally… how can i keep the proportion of my circles?

[vikthor]

You can use the Squish command on your polysurface, place your circles on the “flattened” surface, then run squishBack, select the flattened surface and then your circles on it.

[Despaul (Pierre)]

I can only select one surface of the polysurface with the squish option

[vikthor]

sustained click to select all

[geemix]

i must concur, that does not seem to work on mac. i tried Rhino 5 and Rhino 6

@wim any idea if that is a known bug?

[vikthor]

it is already a matter of mcneel

[Despaul (Pierre)]

so no possibility to do it on mac?

[vikthor]

the second solution seems to only work on windows.

[Despaul (Pierre)]

ok, i will use the flow along curve then.
But regarding the deformation of the pattern on the surface is there a way to keep the pattern not defromed when the surface isn’t flat? It happen on every kind of non flat surface