Dear community,
This is my first post on the Forum !
I modeled a cable tray for electrical cables.
The model works fine, but when i try to make it follow a curved line, the profiles of the assembly ruined (at both ends of the arc, the picture shows the problem).
If it was the component part of the assembly, I could adjust it from profile builder, but the rods are profiles, and there is now adjustment at the juntions for profiles !
Your help will be very much appreciated,
Thank you
It’s hard to tell from your screen shot but typically this is caused be small radius arcs/circles and too many segments in those arcs or circles. Reduce the number of sides in those arcs and circles and you shouldn’t have the missing faces after running Follow Me.
Also make sure your paths are truly continuous with no forks or gaps.
Dear @DaveR I will try your thoughts now and give you feedback
Indeed @DaveR It has to do with number of segments. but I’m stuck in the whirpool now hahah. When I decreased the number of segments the problem worsen, when i increased the problem goes away (relatively), but another problem appeared !
Looks like you still have issues at the corner of the path. Look at it very closely and make sure you don’t have any problems. Perhaps your arc was drawn in a sloppy fashion and you have something similar to what I show selected.
Ensure when you are drawing the path that the arc is tangent to BOTH joining edges.
Good catch, I will verify now
@DaveR It’s an arc problem. look when i drew a perfect arc, the cable tray was smooth along the arc, but at the limits the outermost profiles get stretched ! any thoughts about this ? Thanks, sorry for disturbing you with me
Can only guess from your screen shot that the radial rod is not on the radius of the arc.
Yes, I guess it’s a profile builder limitation here
If the cross rods are part of your assemble and the spacing is such that the path is slightly longer than a multiple of the spacing, you would get that sort of thing.
Is the curved tray an off-the-shelf sort of thing? If so, I’d model it correctly without Profile Builder and make it a component that can be inserted into your model at the end of the traight runs. With the use a Snaps I expect it’ll be faster to build out the wiring trays. Make components for the straight runs, too. It’s not efficient to model the trays from scratch each time.
Btw, I drew a perfect arc with 1001bit tools, and there is no profile problem. I will read today about Snaps, maybe it’s more efficient to use it in this case. Thanks @DaveR Thanks a lot man, appreciate it
You’re welcome.
BTW, what’s a “perfect arc”?
You shouldn’t need to use an extension to draw an arc.
Are all of the trays custom made?
I have hard time getting a perfect tangent arc (magenta) for some edges
