The CurveThroughPolyline command creates a curve from vertex points of a polyline.
Steps
Select polylines.
Command-line options
Degree
Specifies the degree of the curve (or surface).
When drawing a high-degree curve, the output curve will not be the degree you request unless there is at least one more control point than the degree.
CurveType
ControlPoint
The curve's control points pass through the vertices, points, or control points.
Interpolated
The curve passes through the vertices, points, or control points.
Knots
Determines how an interpolated curve is parameterized. When the spacing between the picked points is equal for the whole curve, all three parameterizations generate the same curve.
When you draw an interpolated curve, the points you pick are converted into knot values on the curve. The parameterization means how the intervals between knots are chosen.
Uniform
The knot spacing is always 1 and is not based on the physical spacing of the points. Uniform parameterization can be used if the point spacing is roughly equal and it is desirable to draw several curves that have the same parameterization. This is possible only with uniform curves (unless you rebuild the curves). Uniform guarantees that every control point affects the surface exactly the same way, no matter how much the surface is edited.
Chord
The spacing between the picked points is used for the knot spacing. This makes curves that have widely varying point spacing behave better than uniform curves.
SqrtChrd
The square root of the spacing between picked points is used for the knot spacing.
See also
Create curves from other objects
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