Re: Parallel Nurbing suggestions

[Beg-inner]

Hi David..   A workaround, since the 'Parallel' Tool cant be applied to several curves at once... My old one using the Lattice Mapping system dont work now.. =(.. Mapping a copy of each curve to its own original, and then set the 'Translation z' Field of the 'Lattice Space' in 'Gen' Tab... (now it displace the copy curve in odd ways.. =( not as it should .. and used to before..   So another of my old workarounds I used, comes here, that still works.. using the 'Extrude' Tool with the 'Bevel' option as an intermediate step.. 1.Select the Font Curves 2. In 'Controlbar' use the 'Extrude' Tool, set the options as follows, 'Bevel Type' --> Round (or whatever suits you), tic the 'No Lids' and adjust the 'Radius' slider until you see in the view a distance you think should be between your curves..  Accept the Tool... 3. In 'Select' Window, open up the 'Extrude' level and inside it open the created sub levels and find and select the Mesh objects (4 when creating CAT) 4. In 'Controlbar' click the arrow of the 'Curves' button and select the 'U Curves' option, RS now creates abit extra curves than you need.. 5. In 'Select' Window, select the 'Extrude' level, and delete it, or just set it to WF and RT invisible (to get those out of the way) 6. In 'View' Window, dragselect the outer curves of the C, and those (4) curves will be shown selected in the 'Select' Window. 7. Hold down (Alt Key) and click on the first of those 4 curves, to UNselect that, then press (Delete Key) to delete the not needed extra curves.. 8. Do the same for the Inner curves of the C and the rest of the letters.. =).. (computers and sw really should do these types of manual repetitive stuff....=)   BegEdit: (you can ofcourse delete ALL extra Outer curves...since we already have the Original curves.. which speed up the process a tiny bit..) thought of that after writing my steps..=)   Maybe would be useful if the Parallel Tool would be turned into a 'Contruction' Tool, so it can be Bound to how many objects as wanted, and then easily be managed... since its very seldom, at least I, only want to edit ONE curve at a time..   Hope I havent missed something..=)..   Take Care Best Regards Stefan Gustafsson ( Beg-inner ) A Proud Owner and User of Real3D and Realsoft3D.. ----- Original Message ----- From: David Coombes To: user-list@light.realsoft3d.com Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 9:36 PM Subject: Parallel Nurbing suggestions I'm wanting some inner curves derived from font Nurbs. The parallel tool provides a quick curve for a letter, but how can I get uniform inside curves for each letter? Say for example I have the word 'CAT', how can I create curves within the outlines of C, A and T that are all the same distance from the outside curve?   Cheers.   David Coombes [EMAIL PROTECTED]   ...