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rockyroad_us  
#1 Posted : Tuesday, December 21, 2010 10:47:27 AM(UTC)
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I have a series of surfaces that have been joined with surface join. Each of the surfaces were made with the network surface command and appear on my tree. How do I disjoin the surfaces without breaking the associativity? Apparently, there's no remove feature under the tree?
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#2 Posted : Tuesday, December 21, 2010 6:02:46 PM(UTC)
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Seems to me that they can only retain associativity if they share generating curves. I think they could keep holistic associativity if they're features of a solid, but not as individual surfaces.
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#3 Posted : Tuesday, December 21, 2010 6:49:00 PM(UTC)
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Seems to me that they can only retain associativity if they share generating curves. I think they could keep holistic associativity if they're features of a solid, but not as individual surfaces.


The surfaces do share the generating curves. I just have many curves and sometimes changing the curves takes longer to regenerate the joined surfaces as the update passes through the joined surface command in my hierarchy. I was thinking of disjoining the surfaces and manipulate the network surface individually and rejoin them back to save calculation time or whatever the program does behind the scenes.

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#4 Posted : Tuesday, December 21, 2010 7:20:13 PM(UTC)
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Does the Explorer give the option of suppressing the join action?
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#5 Posted : Tuesday, December 21, 2010 7:38:38 PM(UTC)
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Does the Explorer give the option of suppressing the join action?


No. Just the replace surface option, which does not make sense since joined surfaces involves at least two surfaces. I think the option should be replace surfaces.

This gives me another idea. I could stitch after join surface, which results a solid and probably suppress the solid, which I assume prevents the joined surface to regenerate.

I'll try this when I figure what is causing my network surface to fail. I'm working on another project which uses a lot of organic surfaces.
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