Balanced out connections

[niravmadhvani]

I have a problem to fill the space between curves in a balanced out way.
Please see this description of the problem :
http://threesixo.com/projekte/everest/bala...ction/index.htm

Any suggestion would be very appreciated.
Regards,
Frank

[juan-sanchez]

Have you tried using curves with the same number of points ?
The differing shapes could then be achieved by moving two or more points together or atop eachother after the skinning process.

[atyss]

A good procedure would be to use the second curve (the smaller one) only as a template. To make the actual curve, duplicate the larger one and edit the points to match the template.

When you want to do skins, it is always a good idea to have the same number of points with all curves.

Hope this helps
Bernard Lebel

[fredc]

In reply to:
A good procedure would be to use the second curve (the smaller one) only as a template. To make the actual curve, duplicate the larger one and edit the points to match the template.

When you want to do skins, it is always a good idea to have the same number of points with all curves.

Hope this helps
Bernard Lebel

I agree with the other two posts. In addition, you might turn on Modeling Relations under preference once you get your curves pretty
close. This way when you use edit/add point to add additional points to yoru curve, you can see the effect on the surface immediately.

In case you haven't used Modeling Relations, here is a little explination. When you create a surface with this turned on, the surface will
update when ever a change is made to the curves it was derived from. You must turn this on before you create the suface. Once you like your suface,
you can drop the relationship by using Effect/Freeze, copying the suface, or deleting one/all of the curves it is assoicated to.

Hope this helps,
Urp

[niravmadhvani]

... reshaping one curve to another manually is clear. Because I have hundreds and thousands of points I'm wondering if there is a trick or workaround, like to project one curve to another and obtain the shape of the one curve with the amount of points of the other one. And also the well balanced distribution of the points is important.

Seems that I have to go point by point manually.

Thanks folks,
Frank

[cowsmanaut]

I'm not really sure what exactly you are trying to do but here are some possible suggestions..

if you want a bunch of curves with the same number of points with the same curve the obvious would be to copy and rotate/translate it to where you need it.. however if you want a bunch of curves with the same number of points but to conform to a shape you can use things like project curve on surface.. or shrink wrap.

mooo