Multiple Curves ... Multiple Extrusion Generators?

[chepmedia]

I have 118 curves. Each needs to have it's own Extrusion generator - other than picking a curve, extruding ... picking a curve, extruding ...how can I do this? Of course if I select all of the curves they all extrude, but under one generator. And by extrude I mean the Curves to Mesh generator.

I can't believe I've never run into this before. Hmf.

Thanks,

Marc

[gaboraa]

I believe, power extrude is able to do extrusion on sub curves. I recall doing such menial task with success. Have you tried it?

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17263464/ICE/Po ... 0.xsiaddon

[myara]

I don't think you can, not without scripting.

I was doing something similar extruding curves to make cords and pipes. The idea is the same so you could use the same procedure. Select your curves and run this script:

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// JScript
var sel = GetValue("selectionlist")
var ops = XSIFactory.CreateObject( "XSI.Collection" );
for ( var i=0; i < sel.Count; i++ ) {
	op = ApplyGenOp("CurveListToMesh", "", sel(i), 3, siPersistentOperation, siKeepGenOpInputs);
	ops.Add(op(0))
}
InspectObj(ops)

The operators will be opened (multi-object).

You can replace the operator with whatever you want, and/or specify the operators parameters to automatize it even more. My original code was using extrude along curve, using my last selected object as the base for the diameter of my pipes:

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op = ApplyGenOp("Extrusion", "MeshSurface", sel(sel.count-1)+";"+sel(i), 3, siPersistentOperation, siKeepGenOpInputs, null);

[chepmedia]

Gonna give these a shot once I'm back in front of my computer - thank you so much. I'll let you know how it goes.

Marc

[chepmedia]

I never followed up - I ended up using the script which worked perfectly. Multiple curves, multiple polygon objects, each with its own operator. Great.

I also looked at PowerExtrude and it has a lot of bells and whistles, but I couldn't get it to do what the script did, so I skipped it.

Thanks again,

Marc

[FXDude]

Cool!