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why did shape twist?

    28-Jun-95 10:57:36
Fm: Gary M. Damian 74641,2302
To: Lydell Anderson 71332,2724
Lydell – PMJI- I suspect that I'm kind of catching the back end of this thread – In fact, I didn't see the original question, only the responses from Jonas and yourself. If I'm getting this correctly….someone (Will) was trying to loft a simple shape along a "straight line" path ?! And the resulting mesh didn't loft quite so straight ?! If this is the case… I've had that happen to me….and it really "wigged me out" the first time it happened. I had no deform settings and the path sure looked straight to me. Sometimes, even thought a path may appear to be straight, it's not. ( It's similar to a Modify\Segment\Refine in the Shaper – the split segments now contain "curve settings" as opposed to "linear information" ) In the Lofter….try Path \ Straighten and then re-loft. The big tip-off for a path that needs straightening – the step marks are unevenly spread out. As I said, I missed the original question. Hope this applies to what you were talking about. If not…(Roseanne Rossanadana) nevermind <G> ! CU Gary 🙂