Problem with FlowAlongSrf. I have a round flat design that I want to conform to a sphere. It is a jewelry pendant that I want to dome. When I do it gets stretched and wrapped around the side of the sphere. How can I make this work? I can share the file if someone can help.
I have a reference plane and a sphere and the object to be conformed.
Thanks
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You may want to use _FlowAlongSrf with history enabled, an place object on one half of the rectangle, created from extracted UV curves. This way you can scale, and move your object to fit better. But deformations are inevitable.
The other commands to explore are _Orient, and _Splop (see Rhino help).
Hi Bill - the ProjectObjects script, here-
wiki.mcneel.com/people/pascalgolay
is designed to help in cases like this - however, being a script, it is limited, and the main limit is that the bounding box of the projected objects (the circular pattern) must fit in the āfootprintā if the target object. In this case that means you need to extend the target - basically make a temporary object to act as a target.
ProjectObjects_TargetTooSmall.zip (319.2 KB)
-Pascal
Here is a workflow for you:
You can also use unroll surface if project isnāt perfect for the result (if the shape is more complex)
Good luck
Any chance that this could be made into a real command?
IMO, ProjectObjects is by far the most useful Rhino deformation tool.
-jim
Hi jim- Iād love it if that happened, Iāve lobbied once or twice for this, Iāll see if I can corner the developerā¦
-Pascal
Hi Bill,
Hereās another approach, by using 2 revolved surfaces you could have better control over the flow.
HTH
-Willem
Please try again for V7.
Charles
Soā¦ interestingly, to me anyway, after a chat with the developer , it seems that, as hacky as it is, it may be that my scripty way of handling this is not so terrible after all. Using the UDT functions more directly would require that the target object be a smooth single surface, whereas my approximation smooths things out (at the possible expense of some āresolutionā) when the target is a polysurface. Iām not sure where that leaves us, other than possibly to do what Iām doing in the script a little more cleanly and more behind the scenes in a command, and to try to come up with a way to make it possible to have the bounding box miss and still get a useful result. I have an idea how to do that - if that works out, Iāll try another nudge to make it a command.
https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-46400
-Pascal
Pascal, I have an āideaā.
Once there were the Bonus Tools, I donāt remember when it was.
How about reviving this tool collection, with current content of course.
Like ProjectObjects etc.
And if the single bonus tool would be listed in the statistics, you would know what is useful for many people and what not.
The bonus tools could act as a kind of beta, but not only for beta testers.
What do you think?
Charles
We used to have āRhino labsāā¦ which now simply links to Food4Rhino. So Iām thinking it should be there.