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| ok guys, I got a bit of a problem that I cant seem to find a solution to and its mildly frustrating. Basically what I have done is imported a dwg of an earth works model and I'm wanting to apply a surface moddifier to it. Thing is though, its made up of a heap of splines, and from what I understand, Max doesnt support branching splines, so where the splines intersect with eachother, i cant actually weld them. I'm just trying to create a frame that I can apply a surface modifier to, to make a surface. Alternatively I can convert it to an editable mesh and that leaves me with a heap of verts - so my other question is, does anyone know of a way to create or know of a maxscript that will create a mesh out of a heap of points? I'm not sure if this is possible as it wouldnt know what order to create the faces in. Finally, if i could just convert my splines to normal lines, I would be able to weld them. Does anyone know if this is a possibility. I'm sure there is other ways around this, but I'm just curious if there is a way to solve this problem.
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Luke Cottle
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We are also facing the same sort of problem! We want to make a surface between two long open polylines. Hope the answer for Luke will help us too! regards,
Jerlin
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Sorry for interruption, Just after posting my reply I found your previous hot post and I suppose that covers my issue. Anyway, i'm also with you waiting for a good solution.
Jerlin
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Luke, I would love to the the file...can you post it???
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I don't think the surface modifier requires verticies to be welded or splines to be closed. It does, however require 3or 4 verticie patches (4 corners/edges). So, if you can get all your verts to be close together it should work. Adjusting the threshold int he modifier will give you some leeway with your precision.
THOMAS SHANNON
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Hey guys, sorry I didnt follow up on this thread - I think with the suggestions you made things worked out fine in the end.
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Luke Cottle
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