Curve Offset On Surface Question

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on October 2, 2010 at 3:44pm

Hi Tuan,

which curve is the original that you offset?

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David Rutten
david@mcneel.com
Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Tuan N. Tran on October 2, 2010 at 7:39pm

sorry for the confusion. upper right edge is the orginal extracted from the suface using the brep wireframe component.

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on October 2, 2010 at 9:18pm

Well, an offsetted curve does not extend automatically. The end-point of the new curve is basically at a perpendicular angle to the tangent at the original end-point. Since the edge is curved inwards, the offset quickly deteriorates to zero.

The way to think of a Curve-On-Surface offset is to create a pipe around the original curve and intersect that with the surface.

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David Rutten
david@mcneel.com
Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by simone on May 24, 2014 at 5:03pm

Hi,

is there another way to do this- offseting a curve on a surface in a way that it intersects the whole surface?