jackedin Posted June 23, 2010 Share Posted June 23, 2010 I have a polyline composed of about 372 sections that makes up a complex curve that is being cut by a waterjet cutter. Some of the lines are about .25 mm near the sharper bends, and some are as long as 1 mm near the wider curves. (Someone not me spent a lot of time on this generating this profile...) I would like to break it up into smaller increments, but have each point of the pline be on an increment in the y direction, for example, every .25 mm, and have every point that does not lie on this increment become merged. I need to do this because I know how fast the material is moving in the y direction and the cutter is limited to a certain path in the x-y plane so if the y values come at a constant rate I can know how fast the cutter is moving at any point in time. I tried offsetting a horizontal line every .25 mm and just making 700ish lines and trimming it to the pline but I don’t' see any way to (easily) place a pline on a bunch of end points. I don't think I can break it at multiple points at the same time, and even if I did it would automatically leave a gap between each break... Is there anything else I can do that I overlooked, or am I doomed to have to click on hundreds of points manually? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackedin Posted June 23, 2010 Author Share Posted June 23, 2010 FYI, I found another way around the problem. Instead of descritizing the y domain I created moving datum on an excel spreadsheet and measured the angle of displacement relative to the direction of travel and used some fun trig identities... If anyone happens to figure out a solution it could still come in handy later:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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