pattern on path, but stick to surface?

[menno]

Hi,
I have a question how to achieve the following;

I want to add a row of nails on a organic surface following a path (like nails along a panel edge)
I tried positioning two nails (one on each side of the path) and create a "pattern on a path".
At the beginning of the path is looks ok, but along the path, the nails are disappearing into the surface.

Is there a way to constrain the nails to the surface of the organic body?

thanks
Menno

[TrippyLighting]

Please share your model. Export it as a .f3d file and attach it to your next post.

[menno]

Hi Peter,
I have created a quick sketch what I mean:

[TrippyLighting]

You have to create an new path for each row of nails and make sure the origin of each nail coincides wth the path.

[menno]

That is what I thought, but this is a body object and not a t-spline object.

is it possible to do a 3d sketch constraining to the body surface?

[menno]

The only way I found is to create 3d sketched splines and project these to the surface. Then use these paths to generate the nails.
A bit cumbersome.

It would be nice to be able to extract a selected spline from a surface into a spline. object