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Re: Curves workbench

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Give a try at Gordon surface.
Sweep on 2 rails is old and deprecated.
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... or do it KISS with a simple Loft in PartWB.
Degree of Loft is variable.
Also more than 3 profiles give a controllable shape.
If more complex, use sketches instead of quick and dirty scaled clones.
If still more complex then use Gordon.

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Thanks both for the speedy responses - Gordon curve has solved my 'simplest case' example. It doesn't work on my more complex example, but I need to put some work into that to work out why it won't draw a curve before I ask for help.
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Chris_G wrote: Thu Aug 12, 2021 1:13 pm ReflectLines has been updated earlier this year, and I have also updated the CurvesWB tool accordingly.
Hello Chris,
thank you so much. It's repaired.
Best regards, Wilfried
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Re: Curves workbench

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Chris_G wrote: Tue Aug 24, 2021 8:46 pm Give a try at Gordon surface.
Sweep on 2 rails is old and deprecated.
This means we should ignore it ?
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Re: Curves workbench

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This means :
- Try Gordon surface first, it is smarter, more general, and has better precision.
- If Gordon surface fails, give a try at SweepOn2Rails, but I don't think it has any advantage against Gordon surface.
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Do you think it’s is possible to add g1 G2 to the Gordon surface

This would perfect this curve network tool
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It sounds like a very exciting challenge, but I won't have time to work on this for now.
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Chris_G wrote: Wed Aug 25, 2021 2:59 pm
Cekuhnen wrote: Wed Aug 25, 2021 12:57 pm Do you think it’s is possible to add g1 G2 to the Gordon surface
It sounds like a very exciting challenge, but I won't have time to work on this for now.
Lets track the issue on the curves workbench repo then?
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... with some effort Gordon also could be tamed, by adding adjustable net lines via Interpolation_Curve.

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