Hi Dr. Sassi. Thank you. Yes that was the goal, and I did mean the plain effector. What's not clear to me is why the clones remain in the same orientation when the plain effector is switched on but rotate with the spline when it's switched off. Doesn't seem logical to me.

I'm stumped. What is causing this behaviour. As you can see the cylinders in the cloner are rotating when the parent null is rotating. However they shouldn't and the behaviour stops when the step plain effectors are switched off. machining_v01.c4d Help would be appreciated.

Here's a link to the video showing the behaviour
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UnYDBZmfvicyEGFkumI1kOQHYIoOjK5Q/view?usp=sharing

It did work at the substeps you set. But once substeps were set higher it broke again...
I changed a couple of settings but it's still not perfect.
I kept increasing the iterations until it finally started working.

Thank you for your help

Hi Dr. Sassi
Here's my scene:
problem.c4d

Is there a good way to attach a rope to an object so that the connection does not stretch? For some reason even after setting the connections target length to zero they still stretch:

Thank you Dr Sassi

I have a cloth simulation made up of clones with random colour applied through plain effector with random field. This is then piped into user color node. However it's all gone when the simulation goes into thicken generator. Is there a way to get that attribute through?

Thank you Dr Sassi!

shoelace_v03.c4d

Here's the scene. Thank you for your help.

Thank you, I see. So there's no way to use the grow option in the freeze field?