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 From:  Andy (ANDYA)
10318.13 
OK, so why is point selection not used here? Andy
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 From:  Michael Gibson
10318.14 In reply to 10318.13 
Hi Andy,

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> OK, so why is point selection not used here? Andy

Because the main thing it's looking for is an object and the object picker is best at selecting objects.

Probably what it should do is show a point on closed curves that you could drag in the options stage of the command to change the start location. For now though with a circle the start location can be easily changed by rotating either the circle or the result of the flow around the circle's center point.

- Michael
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 From:  Andy (ANDYA)
10318.15 
When I flow the filleted box onto a surface it distorts the ends. I double-checked and the base surface is the same length as the target surface (generated from unwrapcurve). Any ideas why it is doing this?

Thanks, Andy

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 From:  Michael Gibson
10318.16 In reply to 10318.15 
Hi Andy, it's because the target surface has uneven parameterization, some areas are stretched out and some are compressed in how the surface's UV parameter space relates to 3D space. If you turn on surface control points you can see some neighboring control points are close together and some are far apart from each other.

A couple of solutions are to use the Rebuild command (https://moi3d.com/4.0/docs/moi_command_reference10.htm#rebuild) on your original curve used to generate the surface and extrude a new one out from that. That will have arc length parameterization and so won't have areas of compression and expansion like your current surface has.

Another solution is to use curve-to-curve flow instead of surface-to-surface flow. Curve-to-curve flow matches based on distance traveled along a curve rather than matching by UV parameter space like surface-to-surface flow.

Also note that your object is kind of mangled as a result of applying a fillet with a radius larger than will fit in available space.

- Michael
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 From:  Frenchy Pilou (PILOU)
10318.17 In reply to 10318.15 
Your volume is not a solid (not a problem) but not well "proper" finished!

Better to put the plane at the middle of the object
You can of course put any length of flat thickness between the 2 curvated forms! :)

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 From:  Andy (ANDYA)
10318.18 
Ok, thanks to both of you. I didn't realize the base plane can be in the middle of an object. Andy
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