Partial loop

I have a sketch of a circle projected onto a surface. Because of these
underlying surfaces the circle gets divided into 4 segments. I want to
use 2 of those segments as a chain in a boundary blend (WF 3.0). I
can't do it. I can pick one segment of the circle as a chain, or I can
pick the whole circle, but not 2 segments. If I hold down the shift
key and pick the second segment it will treat this as a second chain,
not 2 segments in one chain. If I go to "details" and "rule based" I
get the option for "partial loop", which sounds like what I want, but
I can't get that to work. It says "Include all items of the loop
reference between anchor and extent reference", but I still can't pick
more than one segment with or without the shift key and picking the
ends doesn't work either.

I've worked around this for this particular feature, by making the
circle divide into 2 instead of 4, but I would like to know how to use
this partial loop thing. In 2001 you could select individual entities
or segments to make a chain.

 

I don't recall the precise picks and don't have time to walk thru
them, but for the boundary definition choose details as you were, but
don't use the partial loop option. Use the control button to collect-
pick the two curves; you might need query select to get just the piece
of curve instead of the whole thing.

Dave

 

You know you're right. That seems to work. Thanks. I could have sworn
I tried that before.

 

You know you're right. That seems to work. Thanks. I could have sworn
I tried that before.

The thing I always have trouble remembering is to get the fat, fuzzy red worm (click to select, click again to fuzzify) before going on to chain segments (Ctrl or Shift selection). With a lot of clicking around, I've gotten it right and made it work, then not remembered, later, how I did it.

David Janes

 

Yes, I've always done a lot of stuff that way. When it's in front of
me I can do it, but if I have to explain it later I'm stuffed.