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OK I am good at making a big ununderstandable waffle, I'll briefly explain.
The original model is of 8 points, consisting of two circles of four points
connected symmetrically by lengths making a cylinder. The aim is to add 4
more ponits, a new circle in the middle. One way would be to using the add
tool (shortcut A) a four new nodes along the lengths of the cylinder making
4 nodes with two lengths each side:
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TO:
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Where the *'s are new nodes. Simply then just join these nodes up
horizontally (after creating them vertically). Thats the best I can do to
explain it.
Peter Cracknell
www.petecracknell.co.uk
TigerHawk <tig### [at] sticnet> wrote in message
news:396CA29C.64EC9553@stic.net...
> > There are two ways I have experimented with to achieve this, though
> > obviously not as fast or easy as they could be. THe first is simply to
move
> > one of the points towards the middle and extrude downwards - this does
not
> > work if you already have a large cylinder though. The second you many
not
> > be aware of is creating another circle, placing it in the middle and
> > attaching all the nodes the joining lines. It does mean you have to
> > manually re create the piece in the centre and right click all the nodes
in,
> > but it does work. Maybe a good suggestion would be a function whereby
the
> > number of extrusions can be multiplied by a factor, to complicate/more
> > populate the mesh without manually doing it. Well I hope thats not too
much
> > of a mess.
>
> Hmm...what I don't understand is how one can add the circle to the others?
If
> you have 2 circles joined together:
>
> ------ <-circle
> | | <-joining points
> | |
> ------ <- circle
>
> How can you fuse the third on? Because there is already a nicely created
series
> of patches. That's what I am having trouble with, adding things like that
to go
> from simplistic to complex. I'm 'kinda' following both of you, but not
really :)
> (ryan: I wouldn't mind seeing your spatch portion of your model if that
okay).
> Anyways, I hope HamaPatch solves some of these problems (though right now,
and
> no offense to the author, I prefer sPatch because it doesn't crash and I
can
> change the grid colors :)
>
> Happy tracing,
>
> Tim Soderstrom
> TigerHawk
>
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