When I import from a CSV, I get a point cloud object. I an see operations to add and remove points to a point cloud. Are there are any surface or curve manipulations possibles?
Can I create a surface from a point cloud?
Can I crease a curve from a point cloud (or a set of points) without drawing point to point?
Hi @bigjimslade,
It depends on your modeling skills 
You might start with extracting / seperating the pointcloud points required for your modeling and go on turning the pointcloud in a shadable mesh. Then you usually use this mesh as a base object to create clean matching and watertight nurbs surfaces. For the first part, you might check out these commands on the mac version: _Patch, _MeshPatch (Do not just select all points, extract what is required first)
Try commands like _PointCloudSection, for interpolation use _CurveThroughPt with Degree=3 then rebuild the outcome to your liking. To fit a line trough a set of points use _LineThroughPt…
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Is there anything what would draw a nonplanar curve through a set of set of points? I.e., like drawing an interpolated curve without having to do each point manually.
I should be more specific–draw an interpolated curve where there is a single point along an axis.
(y,z) = f(x)
(x,y) = f(z)
(z,z) = f(z)
CurveThroughPt is what you are looking for 
Does anyone know why CurveThroughPt creates a kink at the end of the curve. In this first image, I have curve generated with CurveThroughPt using interpolated points (red) and one manually drawn using InterpCrv (black).
The second image shows a series of curves with the same type of kink.
Possibly related, this file
Problem34.3dm (91.9 KB)
creates a loop of the type you that you might get with non-planar points—but the points are all in the same plane.
And this file shows the kink (cyan compared to drawn black) and the line goes past the end point.
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Problem35.3dm (99.5 KB)
Hi @bigjimslade,
Such problems can happen if the spacing of the points is not constant. If you want to get it planar you might use _SetPt. To improve the curve quality, create degree 1 curves first, then rebuild to a higher degree. Try to create not too dense curves if you want to use them to surface the hull.
This is usually caused by duplicate points at the ends. Use _SelDup to find and delete them. If you get strange slopes within the curve, you might delete points which are too close together so the spacing is more even.
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It would be really useful to ignore duplicates to allow multiple data sets to be used.
I have been fixing the ends by chopping them off and redrawing but that is a real pain.
If you do not want to delete duplicate points, you might get better curve results using _CurveThroughPt _Degree=1 and set _CurveType=ControlPoint, then rebuild the resulting curves instead of creating interpolated curves through every point. The point spacing is uneven, so the interpolated curve results cannot be any different.
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