i want to get the circle on the left side scaled or sheared however, like on the right side.
any idea how that could be done?
to manage this i had to align it first then scale 1d along x to the new width and then to shear it 45° not sure if thats correct now its looks slightly unproportional, can also be imaginative. but is there an easier way to transform it with 4 points for example? cage edit brought me there but it rebuilds the curve which is not so severe but that only works when i use a new surface square as a control object. if i use a square curve it deforms the circle badly after moving.
so far all steps are a bit unhandy i might say…
any suggestions?
Hi Richard - try - Orient with Scale=1D, snapping to opposite corners of the square first and the skewed square second.
Nope that does not do it…
Make a 4 point surface (SrfPt) on the square corners and use it to CageEdit the circle over to the skewed shape - or make two surfaces and FlowAlongSrf…
yes i tried that, but its a bit complicated and it rebuilds the curve. flow along surface is a bit faster in the workflow it seems but i still have to make 2 surfaces and the curve also gets rebuild.
so far copying the circle with the square as a reference to the end position scaling 1d and shearing it to the new angle has proven the best option because it keeps the control points in tact. but its still complicated.
no worries thanks for helping anyway, at least you found the best solution as i did in matter of quality.
its slightly faster with 2 surfaces as pascal suggested but it rebuilds… so far no better solution
i had thought about that. but you would have to shear the 3d cube first to get the same optics as shown above.
all in all it would be even more work… it would be usable if i´d had an isometric cube for example but even then for what i am trying only a circle will not do, i need different objects… so no good… but thanks anyway.
I did the cube, exploded and then deleted all sides not need. The right side I rotated from centre 45º and then flattened the side and circle with SetPoints. then from centre with side and circle selected shear both.
Yeah, I wasn’t sure about the look of it so did it again with an offset square which touched the quads of the circle. That overlays perfectly with the control points of the ellipse you’re left with.
What perplexes me is I did this years ago when I first started using AutoCAD back in the early 90’s but I couldn’t work out how to draw it without skewing it now. The best I could come up with was blending curves from the offset box:
Just because I am curious … all 2D . Square 10 mm with grid snap. I brought your original image for reference. Cube on the right is just for scale. Circle from centre of square. Then mirror to get right-side objects to adjust like your drawing. Total time so far less than ½ minute.
didnt get a glimpse at it yet, but if you tell me that shear has a scale 1d implemented?
which would do this kinda job even faster i would be all eyes for it, rather sooner than later.
not sure why you think this is important here but suit yourself
