Rebuilding a curve

[mattdleonard]

Hi,

I am importing a curve from Adobe Illustrator into Maya. As is often the case my curve does not have enough CV in it to be useable straight away as a basis for a surface and I need to rebuild it.

When I use the Edit Curve| Rebuild Curve tool, it adds points but changes the shape of my original curve. So if I imported the letter

[martinw]

I'd suggest using InsertKnot rather than RebuildCurve for this.

Select all the edit points on the curve, then open the option box for Edit Curves->Insert Knot, set the options to be "Between Selections" and set the # knots to insert to whatever value gives you enough control, then do the insert. This should preserve the shape cleanly.

MartinW

[jtk77]

you can add points in illustrator before hand to eleviate issues when you bring it in.

-path-add anchor points-

thats an easy fix.

[deke-kincaid]

I usually rebuild it with the "curvature" option selected. Then rebuild it a second time with "uniform" or "reduce" and it stay much closer to the original shape.