Lathe and standalone deformation 2004-05-17 - By Anthony Ware
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Michael,
Can you clarify this for me, please?
If you create a curve, then select the lathe tool, tS automatically converts
the curve to a polyhedron as it activates the lathe tool with no dialogue to
show it has done so. You are actually lathing a face whether you know it or
not.
If you create a curve, extrude or rail it (tS has no loft tool) and then
attempt to lathe an edge, tS will pop up a dialogue saying "This object
contains NURBS patch(es). Do you want to convert it to a polyhedron?". Of
course if you have Auto Conv(ert) selected in the tS preferences, this
dialogue skipped and the NURB automatically converted back to polys. Once
again, you are back to lathing a face.
Am I missing something?
Anthony
-- -- Original Message -- --
From: "Michael C Horner" <spacekdet3d@(protected)>
To: <truespace@(protected)>
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 8:24 PM
Subject: [TSML] Lathe and standalone deformation
> On a side note, Bobbins wrote: "The lathe tool is only applicable to
faces -
> not vertices,
> edges or whole objects."
> Edges can be lathed- if they are curves that are lofted with a circular
> curve. Open or closed curves work equally well.
> Not sure what this has to do with shells, but I thought I'd mention it
> anyway.
>
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