Hello,
Let's say I have an arbitrary spline, like so:
I need to split this spline such that I have up to 1024 equally-sized segments, specifically, I only need the first 1024th of the segment, the rest of it is idempotent. To be clear, I need this to be *exactly* up to a 1024th of the spline, Measuring the total length and creating a line segment won't do for the precision required for this task, as the error multiplies with subsequent operations.
How do I produce this output? thanks!
I would export the spline into AutoCAD and there divide in the needed number of segments (with exactly the same length, not approximated by straight lines). and reimport the points into Inventor. For better visibility the image shows an example with only 100 segments.
(I don't know if that can be done in Inventor using a VBA macro [iLogic] too)
Jürgen Palme
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Additional question:
What do you need it for, what do you want to do? I can't believe that the given value of the length overall should not be precise enough.
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And what about my suggestions to solve your problem?
And I still do not know (not understand) what you need: the points (coordinates) where the spline to divide, or the spline segments after splitting, or straight line segments between the points or ...?
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If you use 1/1024th in an incremental manner, its calculation (base) error will be added 1024 times.
Perhaps you can use a Baseline dimensioning. Then also the latest point will be placed only with the base error.
(I hope you understand. My English skills are not good enough to explain it better 😞 )
Example for 1/10th:
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@JDMather wrote:
While I can certainly pattern a point along any arbitrary path
>>Here<< an example (for @joh13399 ) how that can be done (thanks to @JDMather for remembering me).
For demonstrating I set only 50 points.
But as @JDMather too, I don't know what you will do with this result.
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Hi
This is a sample solution that came to my mind.
But the tool and the method match the target, and as @JDMather mentioned - we don't know your target.
If you like this method, remember that if n - number of distances, then the number of points must be n+1.
Kacper Suchomski
