Hi shayne,

> The yellow centre twisted solid can it be deformed to
> bend or follow the profile curve next to it ?

Yup, you can use the other new tool in V3 "Flow" to do that kind of bending.

Flow allows you to deform an object from one "backbone" curve to a new backbone. You've actually got this all set up in your file already, the base backbone will be the line running down the middle of the twisted object and the target backbone is the curve off to the side that you want it to follow.

To produce the bend, select your twisted object, then run Transform > Deform > Flow (it's right next to Twist), then select the center line as the base curve, and the bent one as the target curve and you'll get this result:




By default curve-to-curve flow will preserve the current length of the object, mapping distance traveled along the base curve into distance traveled along the target one, with the overall length of the object being unchanged. There's another mode you can activate by using the "Stretch" checkbox option in curve-to-curve flow which will instead map percentage traveled along the base to percentage along the target instead.

If you wanted to make the twisted object take up the full length of the bent part, you would shorten the base line a bit so that it was flush with the ends of your object and then use Stretch mode.

EDIT: Ok it looks like you got Flow handled already...

- Michael