Spline Mask and sweeps on my!

[smckenzie]

I've created a soffit roof panel that needs to be swept along a path of the roof outline. The model is made up of a sweep and spline profile along with cloner objects booling out geo via a connect object.

Because of this, I can't figure out how to sweep the the end result around the path.

It's been a long day so my apologies if I'm missing something obvious.

https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/079jkHQWIkz-CXyqGxsQA4ZDA#soffit

[Dr. Sassi]

Hi smckenzie,

Thank you very much for your file.

Some fine-tuning might be needed, but I assume the process works.

I created a spline with a distance of 12 cylinders (one line), which I swept and used as Edge to Spline.
This spline is then used to clone the cylinders to the Profile.

Here is your file back.
CV4_2024_drs_24_MGgt_01.c4d

All the best

[smckenzie]

That's pretty interesting. Trying to Boole those cylinders out of the swept profile but C4D doesn't like it, a lot of calculations I guess. Is there not a way to do this with a spline mask setup?

[Dr. Sassi]

Hi smckenzie,

Here is an example of how to create those elements with the holes.

CV_2024_drs_24_MOth_01.c4d

Cheers

[smckenzie]

Thanks for that. I had tried something like that previously but couldn't figure out how you could then sweep that along a path. Cloning it along a spline works until you get to the corners of that path.

[Dr. Sassi]

Thanks for the reply, smckenzie,

Sweeping is an "extrusion" along a path, not a "cloning" along a path.

Perhaps you set up a Plane and use that as a clone matrix, etc.

An example is here:

CV_2024_drs_24_MOth_11.c4d
Switch all object to active.

Have a great weekend.