Hi!
I need to orient a number of planes so i can construct some beams (Sweep), but I´m missing something, because it doesn’t work.
the first line is horizontal but its plane it is the most rotated. The are vertical lines that show this.
You’re not providing a plane as Master input M to the Align component, but a line. This is problematic because I believe the line gets interpreted as the Z-axis of a default XY-plane or something. You thus lose all other axis information that is still relevant.
In order to remedy this, you could calculate the cross product between the world Z-axis and the normal or Z-axis of your current plane, which should give you the X-axis of a new plane, whose Y-axis becomes the world Z-axis, and is thus aligned to the latter.
Would you please explain the “XProd” step? I don’t get why the cross product between “z” (which in this case is absolute vertical) and "Pframe"´s “z” (which are a kind of horizontal group of lines) is used as “x” for creating a new plane.
At each curve end you have a perpendicular frame, which is a plane whose Z-axis is tangential to the curve. The cross product between this Z-axis and and the Z-axis of the world XY-plane gives you a third vector that is perpendicular to both, and a “normal” to the curve (perpendicular to it).
A curve has an infinite number of normals like this - much like there are an infinite number of points on a circle -, but since this one is perpendicular to the world Z-axis, you can construct an new aligned plane with it as its X-axis and the world Z-axis as its Y-axis. It’s the same as rotating your original planes to align them to the world Z-axis, just done differently with the cross product, which is a super usual thing!