Hey everyone,
I encountered a very strange behavior today, the title says it all...
I sketched the above lines - which I then mirrored horizontally.
Those lines I then wanted to emboss on to the surface (tire)
But I'm getting this strange glitch where the horizontally mirrored lines are not embossed correctly .
They curl and swivel..
Has anyone any idea why this happens or how to mitigate it?
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It seems a wider issue than I thought.
Either embossing is just not made for self-created forms or the problem arises from the surface not being flat.
All lines are sharp and crisp.
When embossed they all get smoothed down and start to wiggle randomly.
I've alerted the team that works on emboss. Has anyone tried fully constraining the sketch?
Hey @Phil.E
I have just done that and it reacts the same way..
In both directions..
...
The trick @g-andresen showed prior did not work for me. (extruding at first and then cutting)
What did work for me though, is cutting one at a time.
1st.
2nd.
Hi @NVNDO, apologies from development about this particular issue.
@g-andresen is correct in his two suggestions as workarounds for this problem.
If you deal with the profiles one-by-one, the algorithms actually extract more data from each one which leads to a more accurate result, even when the chaining is on. This will give you an appropriate emboss.
The alternative solution is to turn off the chaining as it imposes a hard limit on any extra face that needs to be incorporated into the embossing procedure. (In this particular example, the small bit of side fillet that it thinks is required is causing an issue with the flattening of the faces). If you select the two outer faces when the chaining is off, and then the two profiles, you will get the result that you desire.
Either of these workarounds will suffice, but, it would have been better to get what you wanted straightaway.
I will open a task so see whether this issue can be dealt with more intelligently, so thank you for the good example.
Hi @NVNDO, as I'm the main author of the non-developable emboss functionality it will be my pleasure to try and get these things working out-of-the-box for you in the future. In the meantime, if you have any further issues with the embossing, then the most accurate way to deal with them is to handle profiles one-by-one and turn off any chaining so that you only pick the least (and most obvious) faces that you need to emboss onto. If that doesn't work then there almost certainly is a proper bug that needs to be addressed. Thanks again.
