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Reducing the number of surface control points in an easy and orderly way
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G2Art  
#1 Posted : Tuesday, June 14, 2016 11:32:35 AM(UTC)
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Hi,

Is there a command that is opposite to the "elevate surface" command?

I'd like to adjust a surdace via its control points but there are just too many of them to maintain smoothness, etc.

Can the number of surface control points be reduced to a manageable number in an easy and orderly way?

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Mark
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Craig  
#2 Posted : Wednesday, June 15, 2016 12:05:56 AM(UTC)
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Not sure if this helps, rebuild surface removes most of the control points.
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G2Art  
#3 Posted : Wednesday, June 15, 2016 3:39:14 PM(UTC)
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Craig,

Thanks for the suggestion.

You're right, it reduces the number of control points but, unfortunately, by not very much.
Mark
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murray  
#4 Posted : Thursday, June 16, 2016 12:45:28 AM(UTC)
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If you're on Windows, there's a free maritime design program called PolyCAD that gives the most direct surface rebuild/subdivision to be had. Knock out or insert rows of control points as you want, convert to control point mesh, same facility with rebuilding/subdividing curves and polylines, too. Excellent smoothness indicator combs, nice plain-English human-readable file format, exchanges IGES, .dxf, and some ACIS too, but doesn't do trims or blends, in fact untrims surfaces. polycad.co.uk
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Craig  
#5 Posted : Thursday, June 16, 2016 1:37:48 AM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: G2Art Go to Quoted Post
Craig,

Thanks for the suggestion.

You're right, it reduces the number of control points but, unfortunately, by not very much.


Strange, on V8 when I try it it wipes out most of them and leaves a few.
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