shater issues

Hello there,

I'm having two issues that are driving me insane:

I interpolated a curve. Made a bunch of extruded surfaces that intersect that interpolated curve...When I try to shatter the interpolated curve at the intersection points shared by the interpolated curve and the surfaces, somehow, the first curve in the resulting list of shattered results doesn't seem to split.

As per the images.

If I take another curve similar to the previous one - closed and intersecting all the surfaces - and try to shatter it using the same surfaces as the perviously mentioned, the order is not the same. WHY? how can I get two curves to be split in the same order??

Please...how do I make this work.

Thank you

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Permalink Reply by Chris Tietjen on November 27, 2012 at 6:21am

1) I'm guessing that the surface might be intersecting the curve at the start/end point of the curve.

2) I'm guessing that the curves may be oppositely directed and hence the lists are different.

Permalink Reply by BenjaminMoore on November 27, 2012 at 6:32am

Thanks for your attention Chris.

1: I still don't see how that would keep it from shattering at that point. By making the interpolation periodic wouldn't it become a closed curve? Is there an obvious/simple solution to this?

2: I'm sure the direction of the curves isn't the same. However, wouldn't the order of the intersecting surfaces be the capital in defining the sorted order of the resulting shattered curves?
If indeed the parameter along the curve is what determines the order of the resulting shattered curves, how would I change the direction AND the starting and end point of the curve? I can't just rebuild it like I would in rhino...

thanks again

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