Sorry for the confusion. I have very dense mesh...kind of like a long twisty tube. I want to select just the edges traveling either along its vertical axis, or just the ones perpendicular to that...the rings making up the tube. I was manually selecting edge loops, pulling a big curve from that, using an addon to pull the subcurves, then a script to put a new thin tube along each curve...but now I'm tripling the amount of original curves and wondering if there's a better way to generate this kind of wire mesh.
Kris On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Matt Lind <[email protected]>wrote: > If the goal is to simply select a line of edges, then the range selection > tool can do that. You pick an edge, press ALT, then pick another edge and > Softimage selects the shortest path between the two edges. If the edges > are on the same line, then it’s a clean result, otherwise a lot of zig-zags > will result, which is what I think Kris wants to avoid.**** > > ** ** > > To answer Kris’s other question, yes a curve can be extracted from a mesh > via Model > [Create] Curve > Extract from Edges. From ICE or script you’ll > have to code it yourself by traversing the edge and collecting the vertex > IDs and positions in the order you want the curve drawn.**** > > ** ** > > Matt**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Andreas Bystrom > *Sent:* Friday, October 12, 2012 6:53 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: select edges on mesh in one direction**** > > ** ** > > depends how the mesh is constructed, but sometimes you can simply first do > a "select edgering" and with that result selected do a "select edgeloop" > command. > > > **** > > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Matt Lind <[email protected]> > wrote:**** > > Define one direction. As in, what is your point of reference for > defining the direction?**** > > **** > > **** > > Matt**** > > **** > > **** > > **** > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Kris Rivel > *Sent:* Friday, October 12, 2012 6:45 PM > *To:* Softimage List > *Subject:* select edges on mesh in one direction**** > > **** > > Is it possible to select edges along a mesh traveling in direction only? > I'm trying to extract hundreds of edges along a mesh but only want the ones > running across the surface in one direction. Any scripts or tools that do > this? Possible to generate curves or strands in direction on a mesh via > ICE or something? > > Kris**** > > > > > -- > Andreas Byström > Lighting TD - Weta Digital**** >
