I then want to use the 's' shaped line to cut the big circle in half so I can bevel plus them and have my basic symbol
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I then want to use the 's' shaped line to cut the big circle in half so I can bevel plus them and have my basic symbol
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I would ceate two circles, then go into the channel box for both of them and modify the "sweep" value. @ 180 degrees, the circle will become a half-circle. You can do -180 for the second circle to make the other half-circle. AFter this, select both circles and do EditCurves>Attach. I believe it actually creates a new curve when you do this, so you'll have both your circles plus your connected curve. You might want to delete your circles now to avoid confusion. After this, you'll have a knot in the middle. To get rid of this, choose EditCurves>RebuildCrurves option box. Depending on how many spans your circles had in the beginning will probably adjust what the settings should be in here. Try default settings to begin with though and see what you get.
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1. select edit point selection method on the first circle
2. select the 2 edit points on the x-axis
3. edit curves > detach curves
4. select the lower part of the circle and delete it
5. repeat step 1 to 3 for the second circle
6. select the upper part of the second circle and delete it
7. now select the first circle half
8. shift-select the second circle half
9. edit curves > attach curves
that should be it... you can now play around with the curve's shape by moving edit points or CV's
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I want to do it this way becase if I bevel the 's' them bevel plus the main circle and booean the 's' with the main circle I will lose that smoothed edge that you get with the bevel plus.
Do you know what I mean?
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lol
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The problem was that it doesn't fillet well near the pointy ends of the ying-yangs and I couldn't intersect the two fillets I had to trim them down to look smooth no matter what I did. Grrr... all that work and to have a stupid problem like that...
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P.S. Cheers for trying, I appreciate it.