Make manipulation of curved polylines better please.

[Bruce Kieffer]

I find manipulating curved polylines in Vectorworks so frustrating. Seems that no matter what type of curved point it is, when I move one, the entire line shape changes. I'm trying to draw "fair" curves through defined points. It can take hours. Move this one, then fix that one, that changes another, on and on and on. Manipulating curves in a drawing app like Illustrator or Affinity Designer is so much easier. I wish Vectorworks worked like those do.

 

In Vectorworks I plot a series of 2D locus points, then I draw a polyline of corner points touching each locus point. Then the work begins because there is no smoothing or point manipulation in Vectorworks that can create a "fair" curve that touches each locus point.

Edited January 22, 2022 by Bruce Kieffer

[markdd]

Have you tried the Cubic Spline Smoothing command?

 

Modify > Poly Smoothing > Cubic Spline Smoothing

[Bruce Kieffer]

57 minutes ago, markdd said:

Have you tried the Cubic Spline Smoothing command?

 

Modify > Poly Smoothing > Cubic Spline Smoothing

Yep, no good. That does maintain the vertex points, but the curve is not fair.

[Bruce Kieffer]

This is one minute of work in Affinity Designer.

[markdd]

OK. Just checking you had remembered this command which I keep on forgetting exists. I actually find it invaluable for all sorts of moments when I need to get some quick curved geometry from a polygon.