I have done this as a macro using looping controls. It is not the
most efficient way to do it, but it does work. It would be better if
the Tube module had someone enchance it to provide this
functionality since often people want to do this. Sorry, but it does
not immediately support this at this time.
David
> You don't want to hook it up to the Tube's diameter input. You want
to hook the Import to the line input of Tube and set the diameter to
a number to produce the correct size you want.
Yes, I have done this before - but this yields the same diameter for all
the Tubes, right? My idea is that the diameter varies depending on a diameter
that is included in the dx file (e.g. the data section of the Polylines.dx
example) I'm going to import a water network from GIS data.
Steffen
Richard's Chemistry module FancyRibbon supports this capability (I
can't remember if there's a FancyTube, but FancyRibbon can do both
tubes and ribbons). You can associate a major and minor elliptical
axis radius to each point along the tube line and get smoothly
changing cross-sections. Also you associate normals and binormals at
each point to control twist.
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