Thank you Michael.
The loft and isoparam is good to know, and quick.
Attached is a pseudoModulation done with flow onto a 180 degree revolve of the modulating signal, and project. There
is a little bit of distortion at the beginning and end, and the tips are not symmetric.

I may try to modify lineweb, to add sine waves, in place of lines.

In order to explore creating curves in envelopes, the modulation of a high frequency sine wave, by a low frequency sign wave, was scripted.
Here is a test modulation script, using sine waves. The similarity is AM radio.
There are lots of equations with various variables, from a search of "amplitude modulation." Matlab has some also.
I added an absolute value, which may be wrong.
The script uses the factories array type format, adapted from LineWeb script. (Trying to add a second curve to the Sinewave script did not
display well, like there was some conflict between the two factories.)

I did not know how to assign colors to the factory arrays, but was able to color the curves, by adapted Michaels script "Assign styles to solids," by replacing
breps with curves, and brep with curve. The style assignment could also be at the end, after the Commits.
The side effect is that any other curves on the MoI screen with also have new colors :-)

Is there a better way to assign colors to factory/factories/arrays, in scripts?









Edit: 12/20/2012, updated to version2.

Hi Brian,

> Is there a better way to assign colors to factory/factories/arrays, in scripts?

Well colors do come from style assignments so to modify them you do need to assign styles like you're doing.

One change you could though would be to only modify styles just on the objects that you are generating instead of other things too.

Right now in the color assignment step, you've got:

var curves = moi.geometryDatabase.getObjects().getCurves();

So that will go get a list of every curve that's in the entire geometry database, even ones that had nothing to do with your current generated ones.

Instead try something like:

var curves = factory.getCreatedObjects();

That should then get you a list of all objects that were generated by that particular factory after it was updated.


You might want to make a helper function at the top something like this:

var g_style_index = 1;

function AssignColors( factory )
{
	var styles = moi.geometryDatabase.getObjectStyles();
	var curves = factory.getCreatedObjects();
	for ( var i = 0; i < curves.length; ++i, ++g_style_index )
	{
		if ( g_style_index == styles.length )
		{
			g_style_index = 0;
		}
		var curve = curves.item(i);
		curve.styleIndex = g_style_index;
	}
}

Then you could modify your other places to call it like this:

        <.....>

//	Three factory(s) to update.
	for ( var k = 0; k < Sfactory.length; ++k )
	{
		Sfactory[k].update();
		AssignColors( Sfactory[k] );
	}
	for ( var k = 0; k < Cfactory.length; ++k )
	{
		Cfactory[k].update();
		AssignColors( Cfactory[k] );
	}
	for ( var k = 0; k < AModfactory.length; ++k )
	{
		AModfactory[k].update()
		AssignColors( AModfactory[k] );
	}

Hope this helps!

- Michael

Thank you very much Michael.
The color assignment changes work well.

Edit 12/20/2012, updated script to version2, previous by 2 posts.
Added Michaels color assignment, and added 2 "envelope" curves.

Who needs sine waves?
Adapted this technique from Ralf and wave springs on Alibre forum.
Used Epicyhcloid and Hypocycloid speed reducer curves, Lineweb for even number of points, and FreeformThroughPointCurve command.
Then moved the control points along Z axis, and did loft.

Also did another Envelope/Modulation script with sine waves: