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    smckenzie last edited by Feb 15, 2024, 6:12 AM

    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

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    • Dr. Sassi
      Dr. Sassi last edited by Dr. Sassi Feb 15, 2024, 8:02 AM Feb 15, 2024, 8:00 AM

      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

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      All the best

      Dr. Sassi Sassmannshausen Ph.D.
      Senior Trainer, Maxon Master Trainer, L&D - Strategist
      Cinema 4D mentor since 2004, Member of VES, DCS.

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        smckenzie last edited by Feb 15, 2024, 5:08 PM

        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?

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        • Dr. Sassi
          Dr. Sassi last edited by Dr. Sassi Feb 16, 2024, 7:50 AM Feb 16, 2024, 7:49 AM

          Hi smckenzie,

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

          CV_2024_drs_24_MOth_01.c4d

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          Cheers

          Dr. Sassi Sassmannshausen Ph.D.
          Senior Trainer, Maxon Master Trainer, L&D - Strategist
          Cinema 4D mentor since 2004, Member of VES, DCS.

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            smckenzie last edited by Feb 16, 2024, 4:47 PM

            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.

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            • Dr. Sassi
              Dr. Sassi last edited by Dr. Sassi Feb 16, 2024, 10:49 PM Feb 16, 2024, 10:47 PM

              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
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              Have a great weekend.

              Dr. Sassi Sassmannshausen Ph.D.
              Senior Trainer, Maxon Master Trainer, L&D - Strategist
              Cinema 4D mentor since 2004, Member of VES, DCS.

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