polyline mess

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Permalink Reply by Joseph Oster on January 26, 2016 at 11:11am

'Merge' allows you to control the sequence of points but the problem here was the different tree paths for each point - cured by flattening the point params before the merge.

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Permalink Reply by roberto gagliano on January 26, 2016 at 11:52am

thanks a lot for the explanation !!

Permalink Reply by peter fotiadis on January 26, 2016 at 11:22am

The classic way (although not applicable in every situation - topologically speaking) is to sort the points along a curve derivative from an intersection of a plane (fit to Pts) and a sphere (ditto).

There's also other classic ways to do this via code for large collections of points etc etc.

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Permalink Reply by martyn hogg on January 26, 2016 at 12:12pm

I've learnt something today!

Can this method fail if the points become very non-planar? (For want of better terminology)

Permalink Reply by peter fotiadis on January 26, 2016 at 12:31pm

Maybe it "can"  (BUT not all the cases ... blah, blah). See Plan B as well (Plan C is rather complex, mind)

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