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Free Paths

Free paths are curved splines used to generate surfaces. When you generate a Free Path you only need to click in Scene.

CLICK to add new vertices to the path

DOUBLE CLICK to close a path and generate a new one

Press ENTER or ESC to exit generation mode

After a Free Path is generated, you can click on it for further editing. Curves and Handles of the path works pretty much the same way as Curves and Handles you can edit in Shape Tools, but here you have further options.

Flip Normals: flips the editing normals of the path.

Cancel Curve: cancel this curve.

Convert into Curved Poly: transform this curve into a regular Curved Poly set of edges, which can edited from the other tools.

Free Paths Controls: Actions

Controls: ActionsActivate this to access a set of useful in-scene buttons to edit the path:

+: this buttons add a vertex in the middle of an edge

-: this buttons remove a vertex and merge the edges around it.

C: this buttons make an open path to become close by connecting its first and last vertex.

Free Paths Controls: Normals

Activate this to access a set of in-scene tools to edit the path normals.

Activate this to access a set of in-scene tools to edit the path normals.

Free Path Data

Points : list of points the path is made of.

Normals : list of the normals of each point.

Edge Normals : list of the normals of each edge in the path.

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