Hi Burr, probably instead of drawing something like that all in just one shot of the Curve command, it is easier to draw a planar curve to start with, and then turn on control points with Edit/Show pts and move them around.

Once a point already exists, it is just a bit easier to reposition it by dragging in a different view, or using rotation on it, etc... Undo works a bit easier for that, because you can undo a small tweak instead of undoing the whole last point which is what will happen in the Curve command.


It's not a bad exercise to do it all in one go of the Curve command and it is possible, but typically I would recommend that kind of stuff for only a small number of points like if you are going to draw 3 or 4 points, and you know you want a specific arrangement with stuff coming up in z, etc.... - then you can drag out some construction lines to track in z but it is rather tedious to do this with more than about 4 points or so.

Also with adjusting control points afterwards, you may want to get the Nudge command from Petr's page here: http://kyticka.webzdarma.cz/3d/moi/ - that will enable you to use some keystrokes to move a control point (that you turned on with Edit/Show pts) a small amount in x,y, or z.

- Michael