Connect points with polyline?

Hi everyone,

I have a rectangular shape and I created the points in the vertices and another 3 points on each side, and I need to connect them with a polyline but the points are not connected in the sequence that I want. How can I change it? the points at the vertices are individual points, instead the points on the sides are located in two lists each containing six points.

Thanks in advance

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Permalink Reply by peter fotiadis on June 13, 2016 at 11:41am

First try the classic:

1. Get a plane fit to (all) points.

2. Get a Sphere also fit to (all) points.

3. Get the intersection (Circle, that is).

4. Sort the points along the Circle (as Curve).

Permalink Reply by peter fotiadis on June 14, 2016 at 12:30am

Here's a primitive demo on that case (witch is always solvable unlike 1M other cases that require ... er ... other ways [mostly via code] to skin the cat: like using a concave boundary etc etc ).

That said there's another 1M cases that are ...hmm... unsolvable.

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Permalink Reply by Simona on June 14, 2016 at 2:34am

Thank you for your reply! I have used the first solution that you suggested me and it works! thanks again!

Permalink Reply by peter fotiadis on June 14, 2016 at 3:07am

And here's a variation that I use (among many others) for training my people.

For the moment don't bother how the random points are randomized "again" (the option using the freaky "component", that is) since this is totally irrelevant: just play with the sliders and exploit the possibilities.

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