Welded a curve but it won't divide into segments

See the user guide for the extension. Convert the curve to a polyline and then use the polyline divider. Find the guide at the link given by TIG, above.

According to your screen shot you already have the Plugin Store extension installed. You could have used it to download and automatically install Bezier Spline.

The contextual menu does nt give any option of convert to polyline.

What tool from the Bezier Spline set did you use to draw the curve? From the Context menu, it doesn’t look like you used any of them.

I did nt, this was made with an initial straight line then 4 x 2 point arcs.

The whole point of talking about the Bezier Spline extension in the first place was that you were going to redraw the curve using it.

No, i did however ask whether i may have to do that, i was hoping this pluggin would be able to convert what i had drawn to a polyline then divide into equal 50mm segments. It seems i may have to re-draw? How can i do that with accuracy?

If the Plugin is installed correctly you can select a bunch of curves, edges etc and convert them.
As you see in the gif the menu is there with lots of options.
Make sure it is installed and working.

Thanks Box, most helpful. I think i have converted to polyline but there are no "segment options that i can find.

Did you look at the users guide at the link TIG provided?

Did you try the Polyline Divider button on the toolbar?

That tool only seems to move in straight lines, the polyline divider for animation option is all i have that seems to divide this into 50mm section but once i click off of it the information vanishes.

Open Entity Info window from the Window menu. You will see the segmentation changing as the curve is finessed into shape.

Try a 2-step process to smooth out the curve.

  1. Select your Arcs
  2. r-click > BZ - Convert to > Cubic Bezier. This step will let you smooth out the curve by adding or subtracting control nodes, change precision and loop while keeping the essence of the curve you initially drew. There is no need to first convert the curve into a polyline.
  3. select the curve > r-click > BZ - Convert to > Polyline Divider for Animation. This should get you your 50mm segments. Not the change in Entity Info.
  4. If you need a different bezier curve option, select and r-click again. Quite a few options return in the menu.

Thanks for your help. I can get the 50mm divides with the polyline divider for animation but if i then click on anything the generated information just vanishes, how do i keep the information on my curve to then use for further drawing from the points?

Perhaps you could explain exactly what you want to do, there may be a simple option.
Meanwhile,
Right click and select ‘explode curve’ this will make all the 50mm segments separate.

I had the same question as the OP, and got the help I needed from this thread. Although the OP probably finally figured out the answer himself, I’ll finish it here.

I was trying to divide a bezier into 11 equal length pieces so I installed Fredo’s awesome plugin with my fingers crossed. I’ve been using his amazing joint push-pull extension since all day, so my hopes were high.

First I used the entity info window to find that my curve was 805-mm-long. I divided that by 11 and got 73.1818 repeating.

With the bezier selected, I selected BZ-Convert to > and then chose Polyline Divider and typed in 73.182 mm and it did precisely what I needed.

Fredo is awesome.

well the extension doesn’t really work, as far as I can see.


I want to divide this simple polyline into a number of equally sized segments, I welded it, as the documentation says you can do first, and then made a polyline as the documentation suggests. You can adjust control points, but not make equally spaces sides. The polyline segmentor does nothing, and the VCB never shows up on screen, on a Mac.

Natively, there is not an option to divide a welded curve. So is back to autocad for this simple task it seems.

even though it seems that Bezierspline have some problems showing the VCB on a Mac, the new and paid for extension “Fredospline” works fine. I guess the free version will not live on forever, which is fair enough :slight_smile: