distribute lighting devices on a curve

[Tomas Lohin]

Hi.

How do I distribute lighting devices on i.e. round truss, a non-linear pipe, 2D polygon or 3D object? In cases straight line of Align/Distribute tool is not the solution?

[VIRTUALENVIRONS]

This may be a two step process for your problem.  Duplicate Along a Path was designed for this, but you need to extract or create a path on the solid object.

 

Post a file with a description of what you want to do?  It will be easier to help.

[JBenghiat]

There is not currently a tool for this. A number of solutions exist for creating/duplicating around an arc, but not for distributing existing objects.

 

My solution has been to use the lighting pipe's tick marks. In the case of a truss, I insert a Lighting Pipe along a chord and turn off the "Draw pipe" option, which  leaves only the tick marks.

 

I have a script which distributes along an arc, but last I checked a bug in VW made it crash when picking the center point.

[Tomas Lohin]

On 6/14/2024 at 5:23 PM, JBenghiat said:

There is not currently a tool for this. A number of solutions exist for creating/duplicating around an arc, but not for distributing existing objects.

 

My solution has been to use the lighting pipe's tick marks. In the case of a truss, I insert a Lighting Pipe along a chord and turn off the "Draw pipe" option, which  leaves only the tick marks.

 

I have a script which distributes along an arc, but last I checked a bug in VW made it crash when picking the center point.

It would be nice to have possibility to draw tickmarks directly on a truss object. Now I use your workaround, if you don't mind 🙂