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Alright I know there is a model to sheet function but is there a sheet to model? Along the same lines when I could not foresee a solution I made a general profile of my project and figured I could just use the lathe tool however I get an error saying that there are over lapping curves. I verified that there are none so what am I doing wrong.
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first question - no second question - can you post the profile you are attempting to lathe please
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Not a problem thank you for your quick reply I supplied the partial sheet minus dimensions and the outline for the lathe
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On your profile
there is an unwanted
element - a 'control point spline' ... which has zero length
(Tim perhaps you could look at why this is possible - and why the reporting of this spline in not very helpful)
If you fence-select (left to right)
across this exact corner (shown),
you will see that the edit object window reports
'3' elements in it's top bar - instead of the 2 you would expect.
If you delete the extra element, you can then
make a nice lathed object
Hope that helps
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Thank you very much now I can continue on with the build. Your help is much appreciated.
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(Tim perhaps you could look at why this is possible - and why the reporting of this spline in not very helpful) I modified the lathe, extrude (all profile based solids) to ignore zero length curves in the next build 990. Tim
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Originally Posted by: ColdMuffookies Thank you very much now I can continue on with the build. Your help is much appreciated.
Did you import the profiles using another file format? If so which format did you use?
Thanks!
Tim
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To paraphrase Caprica 6: "We have GOT to clone your brain patterns", but we've GOT to clone Tim. Imagine if there were 6 or 7 of him working like Data when he moved his fingers along the console at near-light speeds, hehehe
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Sorry, ZLC. Tim is ignoring you in build 990!
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