machanical arm wuth wires

# 1 19-09-2004 , 03:46 AM

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i am currently working on a charictor with a simplistic machanical arm but i want to have some whires wrapping around part of it ( think of whires arapping around a pole) what is the best way to go about doing this ???

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# 2 19-09-2004 , 06:11 AM

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extrude nurbs circle along a curve has bean what I have done mostly.

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# 3 19-09-2004 , 03:56 PM

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errr im not exactly familiar with that technique, how exactly do i go about doing that???

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# 4 19-09-2004 , 09:04 PM

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np.

Good idea to have history on for this.

make a NURBS circle, to the outside diamiter that you want the wire to be. If your not sure yet you can change this after you have the wire to get a good fit.

Create > NURBS Primitives > Circle

now make a curve for that to be extruded along, (The extruding will come in just a second) I normaly create the curve in like the front view, like for a wire that gose along the arm. make the cirve falow the arm, have 2 or 3 cv points for each tern it takes, this makes sure there is enufe direction information to keep the tube from kinking up. In the side view I thin just pull the CV's out to match where they should be on the arm.

Create > CV curve tool

now that thoughs are made, select the NURBS circle. Thin shift select the curve also. Extrude.

Surfaces > Extrude ' be sure to click the box so you can set the options like the ones you see below.

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# 5 19-09-2004 , 09:17 PM

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This should give you a nice wire or Hydrolic hose.

You can finly ajust the size of the tub buy selecting the NURBS circle and scalling it. Or the placement of it buy changing the mode of the curve to control vertex and moving them. The tub should falow.

when your happy with it and need to free up memory if needed you can delity history on the tube.

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