How to flow these circles along the surface?

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Hi,
I ran “smash” command and flattened the surface based on its UV map. Then I added bunch of circles on it. Now, I want to flow them along the main surface. Please guide me. The file has been saved in V6.
Thanks.
1.3dm (163.9 KB)

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Hi Alex - it can be done, but it’s messy -

  1. Explode the curve and create three separate surfaces. If you Extrude rather than join, Explode or ConvertExtrsuion to make surfaces.
  2. Join
  3. UnrollSrfUV with Explode=No
  4. Arrange the circles on the result
  5. CreateUVCrv for each face in the unrolled result, choosing the circles that lie on each face as the curves.
  6. ApplyCrv to each face in the 3d object.

1Flow_PG.3dm (549.7 KB)

-Pascal

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You can also use _Squish command on your surface, place your circles on “squished” surface , then run squishBack to replace your curves on base surface with minimum distortion
As squish procude polycurves, just rebuild those curves.

Squish.3dm (1.0 MB)

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Thanks.

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Thanks