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.

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graminator
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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

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dgeesaman

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

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graminator

On Apr 13, 3:15 pm, " snipped-for-privacy@yahooooooo.com" wrote: > On Apr 13, 10:42 am, "graminator" wrote: >

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

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David Janes

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(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.

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.

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graminator

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