Help needed to sweep rectangular profile

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Permalink Reply by peter fotiadis on July 20, 2014 at 8:50am

Well...

... here's a way.

By that I mean that I could sort things properly waaay back in the definition ... but I've used this long way home logic as a demo for other far more complex cases (rather a testimony for "the never is too late", he he).

BTW: a profile "centered" as regards the initial plane (orient component) is 100% critical (can you guess why?).

BTW: path mapper depends upon the current data structure (thus is not a 100% assured way to do this kind of business, but you get the gist I do hope).

best, Peter

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Permalink Reply by Sumeet Kumar on July 20, 2014 at 10:49am

Great Explanation.

Regards!!

Permalink Reply by Sumeet Kumar on July 20, 2014 at 11:14am

Peter  can you explain me that part where you put "This weird syntax means : don't invite circles to the party". Can not understand the syntax {!(0,3)}. Furthermore is there any reference for such operation.

Permalink Reply by peter fotiadis on July 20, 2014 at 11:38am

this means:

exclude (the ! thing means not) paths {0} and {3} from the data tree paths (that contain curves(good) and circles(bad)).

in order to create a "continuous" filter:

{!(0,2,...)} means exclude 0,2,4,... paths

in order to create "specific" things:

{!(0 to 4) and !(8 to 10)} means exclude 0,1,2,3,4,8,9,10

etc etc

http://elsewarecollective.com/AIR/Tutorial%20Videos/AIR_TutorialVid...

Permalink Reply by peter fotiadis on July 20, 2014 at 2:07pm

BTW: if you need to orient some none symmetrical (for instance add a triangle in one rectangle edge) profile and because of this (notice the plane coordinates for the "left" and "right" curves):

or that :

you should rotate some planes (say the ones corresponding to the "left" curves). 

And for separating the planes ... use the {!(0,2,...)} thing as a mask and after rotating them just merge the 2 trees.

Permalink Reply by Sumeet Kumar on July 21, 2014 at 12:32am

Hi Peter

I did try to orient non symmetrical object as shown here.

It only fails with top circular rail curve. But it works with rest of the curves.

Just to highlight this, I used list component. Can't understand why it fails. While the data structure seems to be correct here !!

Permalink Reply by peter fotiadis on July 21, 2014 at 1:39am

Post the definition (and have faith, he he)

BTW: I never said that the orient fails with non symmetrical stuff... it's just the planes that head north/south and ... havoc is assured without rotating the "wrong" ones (or the "good" ones).