Subject: Re: Bend
From: [email-masked]
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 15:20:13 -0400

In a message dated 95-08-13 11:28:06 EDT, [email-masked] (David
Roth) writes:

>Is it possible to bend an object in modeler without changing polygon
>orientation? Huh? Let me try to explain this better.
>
>Let's say you create a box with the following settings
>
>Bottom X = -1     Top X = 1
>Bottom Y = -1     Top Y = 1
>Bottom Z = -4     Top Z = 4
>
>16 segments
>
>So you've got this long box shape with a lot of segments. Tapper it so that
>the front is about 3x larger then the back. Now say you want to bend it so
>that it's front part is up and to the right, but maintains it's original
>rotation.

Dave,

You can't use bend, it will change the orientation of the front polygon.  

Try magnet, using it's boundary boxes in modeler.  This should not distort
the front polygon.

Or a rail extrude without align turned on.

Or you could bend it, then cut a new front polygon with a boolean function,
but this would change the shape of the face polygon.

Or realign the front polygon after bend using "Set Value" for the polygon
points set to the same "Z" value.

. . . or something else I haven't thought of.

Bart Palamaro
Dark Horse Productions
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