Curved edge? Making a line on a curved surface

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Hey guys, I’m trying to get a line on a curved surface, but it won’t work. PLease help

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Please show us exactly what you are trying to do so we can give you the proper help.

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@rae Does this do what you want? It does assume that the line you want to create is on one plane.

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@rae

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One way…

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Hi folks.

Another possibility for more complex curves is to:

1 - Start with a flat face.

2 - Draw the line on that flat face.

3 - Bend the face using a bending plugin like CLF Shape Bender.

Or, use Fredo6’s plugin Tools on Surface.

Just ideas.

Jean

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If the question is not for drawing a single line - “shape-bender” can do it with thousands of lines :

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I had to switch off the lines because the objects would be deep black caused by megabytes of lines !
(I need that for 3D-printing an onion-roof with shindles).

For the curve I used the standard 24 sections. This dosn´t fit to some other parts - it would be better to obeye that

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You can also use the slider on the soften/smooth tray.

Anssi

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The file behind this picture has 200.800 Kilobyte - I think it´s not a question of hidden geometry and so on.

I only wanted to mention “shape bender” and it´s possibillities.

Some people should know, that they have to wait. Unfortunately SketchUp shows no progression bar, but I like to say : wait for the succes ! It can take hours ! ( young people will not believe: in the 1980ies it needed weeks !