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8 Jul 2024 20:06:16 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Mesh extruder macro Help  
From: Gilles Tran
Date: 26 Feb 1999 11:59:39
Message: <36D6D35D.A9D75888@inapg.inra.fr>
Oh, I made a better version of this one lately, if you can just wait until
tomorrow...
Gilles Tran

ingo wrote:

> The last month I've been trying to put together a macro that makes it
> possible to create a mesh by extruding a shape (spline) along a path
> (spline).
> For this I use a part of Spline includefile by Chris Colefax, adapted to use
> arrays. And an includefile by Gilles Tran, I found on my disk (adapted to
> use splines instaed of equatons), but have no idea where it came from.
> The basic thing works a little, but I ran into a major problem. I have
> trouble calculating the last two triangles on shape_spline, also on the last
> three rows of triangles along the pathsegments. So if you cange the amount
> of triangles to calculate the hight of the object changes and the is always
> a gap in the shape.
> The macro's and a demo file with comments are attatched.
>
> Can somebody help me on this,
> I feel like a dog chasing it's own tail,
> running around in circles,
>
> ingo
> --
> Met dank aan de muze met het glazen oog.
>
>                   Name: Extrude.zip
>    Extrude.zip    Type: Zip Compressed Data (application/x-zip-compressed)
>               Encoding: x-uuencode


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