Hi all, I'm trying to bend a shape around another shape using Flow.

After selecting FLOW I canselect the object and base curve with no problem. When selecting the target surface however, I can only select the 'top part' which eventually projects the new object in a wrong shape.

Probably a user error ;-) But why can't I select the entire target surface? (I tried joining, boolean, redraw the shape, but no sucses).

Please take a look at the .gif. As you can see in the start of the video, Moi recognises the target surface as 1, until I select it after using FLOW.






Cheers
Edwin

Hi Edwin, Flow works just on a single surface to another single surface. Your second object there is not a single surface, it's made up of 6 surfaces joined together.

So you need to make just one surface for your target object to make it behave like you want.

The easiest way to do that is probably to use the Rebuild command (http://moi3d.com/3.0/docs/moi_command_reference10.htm#rebuild) on your curve that you extruded to make that surface. Currently your curve is made up of 6 sub segments and when you extrude it you'll get one face for each curve segment.

Rebuild will make a new single segment curve and if you extrude that you should then get a single surface as the result.

- Michael

Right, should have known because of all the lines but I thought joining woudl solve this (in the background).

Working like a charm Michael, thx

Hi Edwin, yeah currently Join will make a multi-segmented curve, it won't fuse together any segments. That makes Edit > Separate work to go back to the segments.

I do want to add segment combining as an option to the Join command, but it's been kind of tricky to work out the UI for it without making Join have a bunch more stages to it. I have some ideas though.

- Michael