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Swepping. About Truespace Archives These pages are a copy of the official truespace forums prior to their removal somewhere around 2011. They are retained here for archive purposes only. Swepping. // Archive: Tech Forum 1  |   Order by default Post by rjeff // Nov 12, 2007, 10:15am rjeff Total Posts: 1260 Ok this is a two parter. One I make paths using the point edit draw functions and I save it as a path. Is that the proper way to do it? Secondly I need to sweep 3 cylinders at the same time, they are making up the fan power connector wires, I have tried to union them together, but they only "wire" it will sweep is the one face I have attached the path to. Is there any way to sweep 3 faces with one path? Post by stan // Nov 12, 2007, 1:06pm stan Total Posts: 1240 if you have a one mesh object with three faces it works or use meshcollapse.tsx to create one object [like my sample] ..if it's a group object is has three paths at the same time, one for each selected face. Post by rjeff // Nov 12, 2007, 3:24pm rjeff Total Posts: 1260 I have tried to group them together by gluing them and I still just get one face to sweep and I can't seem to select more than one face. Post by spacekdet // Nov 12, 2007, 8:43pm spacekdet Total Posts: 1360 Boolean Union the three circles together first, then hold Control key to select multiple faces while in Point Edit. Use Shift key to un-select any that you might mistakenly select. Bring in the path by selecting it from the library. Then click the 'Macro/sweep' icon. Right Click on it first and toggle on 'Bend'. If you are making wires, I'd recommend using NURBS loft function- much easier to make any adjustments in real-time. Post by rjeff // Nov 13, 2007, 10:39am rjeff Total Posts: 1260 Thanks guys that worked. I guess when I did the boolens earlier I did not have them close enough together to get them to join properly. Post by spacekdet // Nov 13, 2007, 4:50pm spacekdet Total Posts: 1360 You can actually Boolean non-touching objects together. The don't necessarily have to overlap. You might find it easier to use the Rail tool instead of sweeping a polygon. Here's a minitut on using the Loft and Rail Tools. (http://www.spacekdet.com/tutorials/loft_rail_tut/) Post by Nez // Nov 13, 2007, 11:38pm Nez Total Posts: 1102 Another method I like to use for cables, pipes etc is to take a simple cube (or poly such as a hexagon) and sweep it to the right kind of alignment and then apply SDS - nice smooth bends from easy geometry. It's also pretty easy to perform point-edit changes to the basic original shape if the form needs to be tweaked. Post by rjeff // Nov 14, 2007, 8:22am rjeff Total Posts: 1260 did not think of that..thanks

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