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 From:  Michael Gibson
481.66 In reply to 481.65 
Ok, additional scaling control is looking good for 2-rail sweeps now as well.

Here is an example from earlier in this thread where attempting to control the mouse shape by inserting more profiles caused a lumpy result:



This tends to be common when adding in a lot more profiles. There is just a lot of stuff happening, the rails are contributing one part to the scaling and then the morphing from one profile to another is another factor. It can be hard to control the resulting shape with all this stuff going on.

Now with the new scaling curve it allows more control over the stretching of the profiles. This is the result with the new scaling curve applied:



In fact in this case we could just use one profile and the scaling curve, the multiple profiles are no longer necessary just for attempting to get control over the height.

So I think these 2 new options (tangent preserving for half-shapes, and scaling curve) should help juice up sweep another couple of notches.

- Michael