UnwrapCurve plug-in

 From:  Michael Gibson
5136.17 In reply to 5136.15 
Hi Mike,

> Before, when doing the revolve methods, I've had to create a spline
> "by eye" to get point spacing that was somewhat representative.

Do you mean that you were altering the spacing to intentionally introduce uneven spacing and compression in some areas and squishing in other areas?

Or do you mean you were trying to eliminate that and have an even mapping from the base plane to the revolved surface?

Because if it's the latter and you wanted an even mapping, you could have achieved that by just drawing the revolve's profile curve any way that you like to start with, and then before revolving it do a Rebuild on it (with Refit to tolerance mode) - the result of the rebuild will be free of squishing or stretching in its parametrization and that will inherit to the revolved surface as well.


> However, there have been many cases just in my adventures in the t-shirt
> and sign industry where having representative lines with exact and
> straightened information from curved sources is useful.

Yup, and this plugin will do that.

I don't quite follow where the replication of the control point spacing onto the line would be helpful though. If you have a specific example file where that would be helpful could you please post it so that I could take a look at it?

- Michael