Split by UV curve?

EvanReese

Using opCreateCurvesOnFace() I can generate UV curves for a given face. Is there a way to split that face with the curve without making surface geometry to do it?

MichaelPascoe

Not atm. @Jacob_Corder?

MichaelPascoe

Not atm. @Jacob_Corder?

EvanReese

@MichaelPascoe
I looked at how you approached it on Thickness Analysis, and I'm essentially trying to avoid doing that, haha. It's a good solution given the tools we have but I'm betting it wasn't your Plan A either.

mahir

@Evan_Reese For (mostly) better or worse, OS is not Catia 

MichaelPascoe

Yeah, that was not the route I wanted to take..

S1mon

@Evan_Reese

I don't think there's anything available now, but there may been something soon, based on some discussions. Theoretically, splitting a surface by U or V is relatively simple mathematically, and should leave you with two surfaces which are identical to the original.

This isn't 100% what you're asking for, but I made an IR a while back for move boundary by U or V.

EvanReese

MichaelPascoe said:

Yeah, that was not the route I wanted to take..

Definitely clever given current constraints.

EvanReese

S1mon said:

@Evan_Reese

I don't think there's anything available now, but there may been something soon, based on some discussions. Theoretically, splitting a surface by U or V is relatively simple mathematically, and should leave you with two surfaces which are identical to the original.

This isn't 100% what you're asking for, but I made an IR a while back for move boundary by U or V.

Good to know from a fundamental level it's not prohibitive. I know the functionality is a bit niche, but I can think of a few custom features it would make possible.

MichaelPascoe

Evan_Reese said:

MichaelPascoe said:

Yeah, that was not the route I wanted to take..

Definitely clever given current constraints.

Credit to @Jacob_Corder for that one.

Jacob_Corder

I found that opSweep with lockFaces was the fastest method for generating a small surface to split the faces with.  Solidworks had splitFaceOnParam which would essentially be what you are asking for.  I have a strong feeling very soon it will be available to us. It will likely be a split face with curve hopefully, then opCreateCurvesOnFace can indirectly split a face with the use of the curve itself. 

Another way to do it would be to use opCreateBSplineSurface and supply the boundaryBSplineCurves. this generates a new face and a thicken would likely need to be created to split the face you want. this also is likely not going to be a fast approach but would allow you to create a inner loop split on a face.

NeilCooke

There is now, in the Split Face feature.