"christof.schuler" wrote:
> 
> Hy,
> I have some hundreds of points along a special curve. Now I want to
> connect each after another with cylinders so that you have the
> impression of a tube.
> I tried cylinders (closed and open) from one to the next point but that
> didn't look good because you saw the caps. The next possibility I
> thought are prisms, but here you also can extrude only "linear" (and not
> cubic) from one point to the next.
> Is there a tool do extrude a circle or any other 2d-shape along a
> spline  or along a set of points
> 
> Thank you

You may also wish to try out Ron Parkers Torus Spline include file. It
does a pretty good job of connecting points smoothly.

http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html

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