Seems curves can be 3D but some fail to calculate!
Here a simple Helix

Hi Pilou,

re:
> But I have refound this! Maybe Michael don't remember of that! ;) 2012 ;)

Oops, I did forget that one, thanks Pilou!

English version here:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=4898.19

- Michael

Hi Michael,
There is a limitation written into this command. Can you see if it can be removed?

OffSetMultiStep

https://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=4898.19

(Inches) With a distance of 1 anything over 12 steps starts to do a skip, space miscalc

If the distance is .25, then the steps have to be 48 or more

Anyway, let me know if this doesn't happen for you....

Hi Burr,

re:
> (Inches) With a distance of 1 anything over 12 steps starts to do a skip, space miscalc

Hmm, I'm not seeing it over here:



Can you please post an example file?

- Michael

Hi Michael,
Saw your post and created a new file and curve and it seemed to produce a proper result.

Changed the perameters like distance and a large count and then it stopped updating the count. If i put 50 it only created 11

closed and logged off and reopened moi and did it again and got the space...

Can you try a few different params with a larger count and verify it is only me?

Thank you..

here is running it twice with 24 count




The first time it created the 1 block with only 7 objects. the last one spaced. Selected the spaced last object and got 3 sets of 7, spaced

I am starting to think it is my test curves particular shape and not being able to offset that many times due to its back and forth wiggle...

Did some testing with a trimmed circle and offset to the outside and it would do 50 count fine

did a retest with a dramatically wavy curve and the count went down to only 2 objects created no matter how many was chosen.

I think it may be a "You cant offset that curve that many times without folding back on itself" issue...

Hi Burr, does it generate the missing ones if you turn off the "Trim" checkbox?



It looks like offset is having difficulty detecting the self-intersecting spot on this particular shape. If this happens you can turn off Trim and then get some pieces to work with.

- Michael

That was it! And I didn't manage to use my dedouchary skills to equate the "trim" to getting the "compute anyway" result...

Just what I needed. Thanks for the help. Sorry to bother....