joancabeza wrote: ↑Fri Aug 10, 2018 4:12 pm
I've tried to create a curved panel with a trapezoidal type wave but it doesn´t follow the curve. I used facebinder to the curved surface and then I made a panel of it. That's ok, but when set the wave height, lenght and type it seems like it follows a tangent direction.
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curved panel.FCStd
You are absolutely right, although facebinder can pick up certain faces, not all types of surfaces, the ability to detect and build upon curve surfaces with pannel tool doesn't yet seem to be implemented. Curently the pannel tool works on only 1 face and extrudes along the normal of that face,
if you select many faces, which are facing in their various normals, there isn't yet an option for the pannel to understand all those all at once and generate pannels for all at once. This is a useful for wall cladding tools. Since the panel tool can host alot of these veneer elements.
and then now the question of curved surfaces with normals pointing in any tangential direction. that will require a different kind of pannel tool, or a different kind of python "class" i suppose to create and add to the existing tool the ability to generate a panel based on curved surfaces.
hehe this is just my basic understanding so far. But yorik might have the proper idea.
