Cool work Alex! - Michael

Thank you, Michael.

Michael >Hi Zooen, can you please post the .3dm file with the curves that don't work?

Test-Dashcurve.3dm

Hi Alex,
Awesome stuff!

This is a resource Michael provided a few years back.

Your work reminded me of it. Its cool because it allows you to design “cut paths” for curved surfaces also. So little half moon slices to roll up a flat sheet into a curve.

Thought you would like to get a look if you hadn’t already heard or seen about it.

http://laminadesign.com/index.html

I have a license but we never got the machine that would facilitate cutting paths well…

https://laminadesign.com/index.html

Located Lamina referenced patent here:

https://patents.justia.com/patent/6819966

Thanks Burrman - I had crossed past Lamina years ago but didnt really have the way to cut those shapes outside of laser - I have just setup a CNC Plasma really economical setup single phase and just with an air compressor the cut quality is amazing. Ill have a play with lamina I have some 1mm aluminium should be soft enough to get it to bend into non planar shapes.
Here is a trial shape in 3mm Mild Steel 20mm Slot 3mm Tabs just like bending cardboard. I model the shapes with unthickened surfaces and so far the material thickness has really not effected the shape coming together I guess that maybe a problem in higher gauge materials.

Wow! I really like this last one!!!

Definitely look back at lamina too. The process has a “material thickness calculation.

Anyway, don't be shy about posting your results. That last one is beautiful!

Envious

Deleted several posts, as observations were weird symptom(s), not cause(s).

It looks like I was selecting different points on a curve, on different trials.
Maybe when selecting a closed curve, selected point/direction does not matter?

- Brian

Hi
Thanks Michael, Another cool plugin.
I had the same problem "Zooen" mentioned. And I guess it's something to do with the "flow" factory?

When I select one of the "Zooen's" attached curves by "clicking", the problem occurs.
The results will change based on the selected position. (Start or end of the curve)

The problem will solve if you "drag-select" the curve.

@MO - thanks I think you have the bug diagnosed there, when the curve is click selected then Flow flips its direction but the Trim processing part of the script is only looking for a trim fragment that is in the natural curve direction.

I should be able to tune up the Trim logic later today.

Thanks for figuring out the bug depended on the click selection location that made it seem kind of random.

I'll also see about adding in a trim function on curves so that can be used in the future instead of the trim factory which is kind of awkward to script.

- Michael

Cool, Thanks

Ok, script above (http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=11239.6) has been updated to fix the bug when click selecting.

- Michael

Hi Brian,

re:
> Maybe when selecting a closed curve, selected point/direction does not matter?

Yup, with the flow command if you select a base or target curve by a click it will use the side closest to where you clicked it as the beginning side of the flow but that is only for open curves and not closed curves.

The DashCurve script was inheriting that since it uses flow internally, but when it was flipped that was messing up the trimming part of the script.

Should be fixed now.

Thanks,
- Michael

Thank you Michael :-)

- Brian

Thanks Michael (and thanks MO for the bug analysis),

What a time and quality saver for drawing production.

I also hope that the integration of ordinate dimensioning will be included in the final V5.

The more I use MoI3D and the more I explore its possibilities, the more I find this software brilliant.

Hi Zooen,

re:
> I also hope that the integration of ordinate dimensioning will be included in the final V5.

Sorry no that isn't planned currently.

- Michael