Multiple Surfaces From Points

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Chris Tietjen on February 23, 2013 at 6:57pm

Your point sets coming out of the Move Component are all colinear.  What are you try to do overall?  It look like you take a base surface translate it, divide it and then...I lose track of what you're attempting.Also Surface From Points requires a row and column like order to the points and you have to indicate the U direction correctly by setting the matching U count value based on the picking sequence.  Otherwise you'll end up with very weird surfaces.

Permalink Reply by Newsum on February 23, 2013 at 7:17pm

I am breaking down a global surface into the list of 4 point surfaces.  Then I am dividing those surfaces into points which reference attractor points that are relatively arbitrary right now, but they will move the points.  From the moved points I am trying to use to make up a new list of surfaces which are warped versions of the 4 point surfaces.  The real question is, can I make more than one surface with one surface from points button?

Permalink Reply by Chris Tietjen on February 24, 2013 at 6:53am

"can I make more than one surface with one surface from points button?"

You can make more than one surface if more than one set of points are input into the SrfFromPts  component.  It doesn't make sense to say "more than one surface with one surface" since a surface is not an input parameter of a SrfFromPtscomponent.  So if whatever you do to left of the SrfFromPts component gives you multiple sets of points as well as multiple U values (should they be different for each set) then the answer would be yes.  I tried to illustrate that above with two sets of points that have the same U value.  Two point sets in, two surfaces out.