Rebuild linear curve to cubic curve

[scrog-sd]

I have created a linear curve from a selection of edges and need to rebuild the curve to a cubic curve keeping the edit points in the same positions. Does anyone know of a way of doing this? I've tried all of the options in the rebuild curve operation but can only achieve a rebuild with uniform spacing of spans.

[ricgreen]

If the curve does not have an insane ammount of verts you can try to rebuild it manualy.

celect the liniar curve and click on
Display->Nurbs Components->Edit Points

Now you can use the point snap (hold down v on keyboard)

and click on the points using the EP Curve tool with
cubic settings.

hope that this is what you need.

[campbell]

One way i found of doing this is to attach your linear crv to a deg3 ....deleting off the added points. This will produce a d3 crv with multiple knots where your linear knots were. But your probably not after multiple knots. So, yeah, if it aint too much of a line, just pointSnap plot the EPs on there manually ...or perhaps write a script that queries the CVs of the linear and then uses these as position values for a deg3 curve w as many spans as needed and cycle thru selecting the EPs and moving them to those pos values (not sure if/how you can directly command plot the positions of EPs on crv creation as you can w CVs).

c.

[scrog-sd]

cheers. I thought maybe someone has a script that could do it for me because I have a lot of curves to do this to and each curve has about 60 spans. Looks like I will have to do it manually.

[campbell]

Hey, i just wrote a script to do this, then thaught id best check here first, oops: ReconstructCurveFixedEP script, and there is also a script that is meant to allow you to enter EPs for crv creation. Not best solution, you'll still probably have to tweak a bit, but it'll save ya soem time.

c.