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Featurelines - Create Curves for Tessellated Featurelines

Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2020 7:45 pm
by Lincoln
It would be really helpful to have a tool that creates curves for tesselated featurelines to replace the small tessellated segments.

In the attached image a featureline is shown that was extracted from a Corridor.

Re: Featurelines - Create Curves for Tessellated Featurelines

Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2020 3:40 pm
by twdotson
Run Check for Updates and give this command a try.

Code: Select all

Command: FigResArc
DS> Select Figures ...
Select objects: 1 found
Select objects:
DS> Maximum Distance <10.0000>:
DS> Restored (3) Arcs on (1) Figures.
DS> Use GMCLEAR to remove temporary markers !!!


The Maximum Distance is slightly bigger than the longest short chord distance. Anything longer is assumed to be a (keeper) straight segment. Does not support compound or reverse curves.

I think we need a setting for whether to draw the glyphs, some people might like the visual feedback, some might not.

if it works okay we'll add it to the menu, ribbon, etc.

Re: Featurelines - Create Curves for Tessellated Featurelines

Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2020 7:54 pm
by Lincoln
I'm trying to select a Featurline, however it is saying 0 found..

Properties says it's an Auto Corridor feature line. I extracted it and chose not to have the dynamic link option.

Re: Featurelines - Create Curves for Tessellated Featurelines

Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2020 10:53 pm
by twdotson
How many flavors of FLs are there? Wblock and email please.

Re: Featurelines - Create Curves for Tessellated Featurelines

Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2020 5:20 pm
by twdotson
When Google returns (6) results you've got yourself a rarity. The API doesn't have a selection class for it, since it is actually just a FeatureLine. So the plan is to allow Figure > Convert to convert it to a standard FL, then it can be used with all the other figure tools.