Why can't I loft these 2 curves and get a smooth transition ?
I tried reversing , rebuilding and birailing...
BTW - the upper curve is an offset of the lower curve
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How can I Loft these 2 curves ?
Why can't I loft these 2 curves and get a smooth transition ?
I tried reversing , rebuilding and birailing...
BTW - the upper curve is an offset of the lower curve
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have you tried to rebuild the curves?? then do the loft again
don't know if these will work.
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The 1st is too much work and second just didn't do it
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Good luck
I'm a Maya beginner.
My Engilsh is poor, perhaps I don't understand your meaning
exactly.
Have a look at the picture, do you want to do this?
I wonder if you can send your .mb file to the website or me?
I used CV Curve Tool create a curve, then duplicated it,
move one of this a little, then loft them.
Hope that is helpful to you.
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Offset vs. Duplicate
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Also, after offsetting, you can rebuild the curve to be 8 spans or whatever your original curve's spans are, but that would more than likely alter the shape of the curve. Just depends on how you want to do it.
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I offset them because I wanted a smaller curve that follows the source curve's shape - Duplicating and lofting is always good and easy but I can do it by extrude and distance .
If you see the backhoe loader model in my maya page - the roof gave me some hard time trying to loft an offsetCurve.
I think Mike's solution is the one to follow (well, he is a king in NURBS, ain't ya Mike ? ...)
:p :p :p :p
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I don't know much about Nurbs, but I tried it with polygons instead...
I don't think it is very usefull to your problem, but I just had to try...
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To be honest - this is a BIG and BAD surprise for me.
The offset command does its job very bad if you want a parallel copy of your curve so I imported the same shape from AutoCAD and than used DETACH which is good if you have less than 10 curves in your curve - and I lofted each each pair.
As you can see - I needed an offset (the red lines shw that the distance is consistent) and not a duplicate - because when you duplicate and then rescale - it does not give a similar distance between all the edges.
Anybody interested in a used Maya 4.5 Complete.. COL=Crying out Loud...)
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Not meant as an insult or as a negative comment... I just think it's funny.
Good luck!
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You've got to admit that I am right - there is no way to do what I want in maya
I tried the rebuild command and I am used to work with software that actually does what you expect it to do - if oyu have ever worked with Rhino - you know that NURBS are a pure delight in that sense
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Just my observation, is all. I don't really know if our back-and-forth here can really accomplish much. How about we just agree to disagree.
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Offsetting in most software packages is a pain. I don't know why but I've found that you can offset just fine with B-Splines and Nurbs if you always send your offset outwards e.g. increase the radius. Then simply scale these two curves back down from a "top" view to match original curves condition.
It's easier for the software program to establish curves radiating out than in because there are no "Pinching" problems. As there is a difference between an offset curve vs. an scaled down curve I would consider trying the above before a standard scale. But there are simply times when things don't go the way ya planned.
This is also why you sometimes have a good fillet until you've specified too small a radius. Then it's gone!
The only packages that don't really care about this are CAD type packages.
Send Maya back and pick up AutoCAD. JJ
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