Profile on edges

 

 

 

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This command allows to copy surface edges. The edges that delimit a surface are its border edges. A volume shape does not have any border edges.

 

Creation stages / Use:

 

Select the Profile on edges...command from the "+" of the path field of the Slot and torgue command. It is also available for all other surface commands which needs a profile to be created (Pipe, Swept, Lofted, Normal, Flat, Imprint, ...)

 

  1. Select the different edges of the face..

  2. Validate by clicking .

 

 

This profile is created "on the fly" during a command use. If this command is canceled or its operation deleted, this profile is also deleted.

 

 

A solid shape has no boundary edges. Only edges can be used.

 

 

  • Green spheres indicate the selected vertices extremities. When the selection is finished, only 2 spheres can appear if the profile is opened or no sphere can appear if the profile is closed.

  • Several edges on several different shapes can be selected.

 

 

In white and blue: the selected edges.

The green spheres : the start and end vertices.

Result