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 From:  Michael Gibson
4352.2 In reply to 4352.1 
Hi eric - try to imagine that the network lines must be in the same kind of a grid pattern as longitude and latitude lines on a map.

Your center horizontal line and vertical line are like that, but the outer closed curve is unlike any kind of latitude or longitude line - it touches all the other curves. So because of that it isn't possible for that arrangement to be constant u and constant v curves in a 2D grid.

It could work to have 4 small curves coming to the center point from the closed curve - that would make a pole like at the north pole or something, but once you have the 2 other vertical curves thrown in that won't work anymore.

Split the long closed curve into halves by the horizontal line and then you'll have a networkable layout - the ends will be like the pole areas of a globe.

I'll try to give you some more explanation later.

- Michael
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 From:  Michael Gibson
4352.3 In reply to 4352.1 
Hi eric, I've attached here a layout with your curves that will now work for Network. The difference is that I cut the ellipse up into 2 pieces.

The reason why that works is that now there are 3 long pieces here:


and now those 3 long lines work the same as lines of longitude on a globe, and can be mapped to a 2D grid pattern. Network has to be able to map the curves into a flat 2D grid like that in order to work.

Here are a few previous threads discussing similar network layout stuff:

http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=1905.1
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=1778.6
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=1484.1
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=2315.6

- Michael

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 From:  eric (ERICCLOUGH)
4352.4 In reply to 4352.3 
Thanks Michael ...
Got it ..
eric
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