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Surface Extrude Curve > Ribbon |
The Ribbon command Offsets a curve and creates a ruled surface between the two curves.
Command-line options
Sets the offset distance.
The Corner and Tolerance options are not shown and do not affect the output. Polycurves are offset as a group of separate curve segments, and there is no corner trimming or filling.
Specifies how corners are handled when they are offset to the "convex" side as pointed out in the image.
Curves offset to the outside of a corner will be extended to meet at sharp corners with position (G0) continuity.
Curves offset to the outside of a corner will be filled with arc segments with tangent (G1) continuity.
Curves offset to the outside of a corner will be filled with blend segments with curvature (G2) continuity.
The corners of the offset curves will be filled with a straight line between their endpoints.
Offsets through a picked point instead of at a distance.
Sets the tolerance for the offset curve. Type 0 to use the default system tolerance.
Offsets the curve on both sides of the input curve.
The curve is offset in the plane of the original curve. This option offsets the curve in the plane of the current construction plane instead.
Place the results on the current layer.
Place the results on the same layer as the input objects.
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Curve Offset > Ribbon Offset |
The RibbonOffset command offsets a closed curve and then creates a ruled or sweep2 surface between the input and offset curves.
Offset curve options
The distance between the input and offset curves.
Offset distance can only be positive. Offset direction is picked by mouse after the input curve being selected.
Controls the approximate radius of the blend curve used to trim the intersected corner between two offset curve segments.
Uses the original offset curve to create the ribbon surface.
Uses the specified control points count to rebuild the offset curve.
Uses the specified tolerance to refit the offset curve.
Ribbon surface options
Creates the offset curve but not the ribbon surface.
Creates the ribbon surface using Sweep2 only.
Manually adds sections to reduce twisting along the sweep.
Creates the ribbon surface as the Sweep 2 method, but uses NetworkSrf on the corners where the offset segments do not intersect.
Places cross-sections near the mid points of the rail segments and creates the ribbon surface using Sweep2.
Displays the ribbon surface before it is created.
Additional output options
These curves are always created from the ruled ribbon surface, the one created by the Mixed Sweep2 / NetworkSrf method.
Duplicates cross-section edges of the ribbon surface as lines.
Duplicates the edges of the ribbon surface rails as separate curve segments.
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