Edit rho of cubic curve

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 From:  Andre
9625.1 
I just noticed that curves, when they were created with the Cubic tool, can have the exact same control points and still be different:



So there must be a hidden value (rho?) per segment (or control point?) that controls this curvature. Is there a way to edit this value after the fact?

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 From:  Michael Gibson
9625.2 In reply to 9625.1 
Hi Andre, yes that's the effect of the additional "weight" value that a NURBS curve has associated with each control point. Each point in a NURBS curve is made up of 4 numbers: x,y,z,w . Primarily the weight exists because it makes it possible to form exact conic section curves like exact circles, arcs, ellipses, parabolas and hyperbolas.

There is not currently a method set up in MoI to edit that weight value on an existing curve.

- Michael
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