Stuck in one type of modelling axis

Alan Lacey
September 29, 2012 at 4:46 pm

I seem to be making headway with this but have now lost the ability to constrain the bezier controls on the spline points to the plane that the (flat) spline is lying in. The big X,Y & Z buttons don’t do this.

Thanks Alan
Brian Jones
October 1, 2012 at 1:55 am

they do function (here anyway maybe your setup is different than I am understanding). To lock a bezier handle into an axis (when it’s not flat on a workplane) you can use the XYZ buttons but only one should be active. If two are active it will be able to move off the selected plane. If you are off the world workplane remember not to use World Coordinate system.
Alan Lacey
October 1, 2012 at 1:02 pm

Thanks Brian. I think one of my problems is that I’d deleted the construction plane. I’ve experimented and placing the spline as a child of the plane and selecting orientation=root sorts this. I was hoping though to be able to constrain the bezier handles to any planar surface without bothering with a construction plane for each one.

Do you happen to know if there’s a method of setting the position & orientation of a construction plane onto a random planar surface?

Thanks

Alan

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