Morph tube method

[Anonymous]

The tool does not work like it is being shown in the tutorial. When I switch to Tube mode and select a node, the origin does not relocate as shown in the video. Is there some setting that needs to be turned on/off that we were supposed to know prior to this video being started?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCKuuhmofTk&list=PL1196509B1C879ACD&index=28

[Laszlo Nagy]

Can you tell exactly which part of the video?

Like: from 00:48 to 01:25 or something like that.

[Anonymous]

Yes. It is at 54s. "...the starting point of the path will be relocated to the clicked point..." No it will not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCKuuhmofTk&list=PL1196509B1C879ACD&feature=player_detailpage#t=55s

[NandoMogollon]

Hi,

I have to say that when you do it exactly as the video shows it works well...

BUT, the relocation of the Tube "extrusion" -origin point- must be within the boundaries of the face "tubed".

BUT, BUT, I have found an even more intriguing video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=o5yOnSWksdw#t=24s

Some how this person was able to "tube" a morph face following a path outside the boundaries of the face.....

Laszlo, Do you know how is that possible? I tried relocating the user origin before the first "tubing" click.... no luck.

Any ideas?

[Laszlo Nagy]

Yes, it is possible.
It seems to me though that the video shows it kind of too fast.
So what happens is you have the profiles and the path. The Path is also a Morph which he created by SPACE-clicking the polyline in the Section Viewpoint.
When you create the Tube, it starts to create the first segment perpndicular to the plane of the selected Morph face. This is when you have to click the first point of the Path Morph polyline. This does not show very well in the video that you actually click that starting point of the path polyline. Then you click the second point of the path. Then what I did is I created a 3D Guide Line on the second segment of the Path polyline. Then I changed the Editing Plane to Vertical so it is in the vertical plane of the path polyline. Now with the vertical Editing Plane and the Guide Line, the second sement of the Tube can be parallel with the Guide Line in the vertical Editing Plane. Then the third segment is easy. Then you just click again on the last point of the Tubed Morph face to finish.
It is interesting to note that you could select all 3 Morph faces you want to Tube and do the whole thing in one Tubing step instead of the three separate shown in the video. It is just faster that way.