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Best practices for how to edit curves used for loft guidelines?
kenn_sebesta167
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Lofts require that guidelines and paths intersect precisely, but the edit curve functionality doesn't have a way to enforce that intersections are preserved. So I can start with a curve, e.g. a 3D spline, which originally intersects the loft profiles but after the edit curve feature is complete there will be minor discrepancies and the guideline will fail.
I've been trying a variety of things for an hour now, but it seems like either the tool I want doesn't exist (e.g. a way to constrain an edited curve's point along another pre-existing curve) or simply can't exist (some kind of magic which would let me back propagate the new curve points to the original loft profiles).
Thoughts?
Comments
The only way right now to enforce intermediate points to be coincident is to use a sketch or a 3D FitSpline. If your curves can be planar, I would recommend using sketches and Bézier curves.
@kenn_sebesta167 - I find the "pierce" command is very handy for this use, and I prefer it to coincident, most of the time (it just seems more robust).