Polygon extrusion on curve produces unexpected results

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Symptom

You draw a polygon, and then extrude the polygon on a curve. The result polymesh appears twisted, as the end polygon component is rotated in the X axis, thus flattening the polygon component.



Cause

This problem is a known a bug:

XSI bug 67825: Modeling: Extruding a single polygon on a curve produces unexpected results

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Solution Duplicate the single polygon before executing the extrusion on curve operator. The result will be as expected.  

References

About  extruding Polygons

SOFTIMAGE|XSI, Modeling & Deformations on line documentation, page 96.



Applies To: XSI 1.5 on NT,Win2K,Irix

Posted: 5/24/2001


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