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From: Bravlin
21 Feb 2019   [#57]
Q_04:
Hi guys. Got another question.
Today it's not about surfaces and shapes.
It's about proportions and scale. I have this kind of a bended shape. It was bent by "Flow" deformer.
Now it has become necessary to make this shape thinner. But if i use scale operator we lose src proportions of this shape.
I assume that Flow operator may help with it. But i can't understand which surface to use for such case.
I don't have src surfaces that i used for shape bending.
If scale operator can solve this problem i dunno how to use it right?

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MQ_04.3dm

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PIC001.png 


From: Michael Gibson
21 Feb 2019   [#58] In reply to [#57]
Hi Bravlin, it's usually best to do such edits on your unbent shape and then do a new Flow with your updated object.

It is possible though to do a kind of "scale from center path" operation with Flow, to do that you would make a Sweep of a line profile:


Along a central rail curve:



That will be the base surface for the flow. Then make a narrower sweep surface using a shorter line along the same rail, that will be the target surface for the Flow. An example result is attached.

- Michael

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MQ_04_2_3dm.zip

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Bravlin_flow_scale1.jpg  Bravlin_flow_scale2.jpg 


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