[ronjurman]

Originally Posted by REvans

Thanks for the suggestions Couerl and ronjurman, but I still have the problem. I used a circular cross-section for the first cross section and I centered it and the second cross-section as well. The path keeps getting rotated around a point toward the edge of the profile, rather than the center point of what should be a plate.

Odd. Screenshots would help, yes.

I have attached a screenshot of the problem I am experiencing.

Not showing up.

Something that occured to me as I write this is: do I need to actually need to use a full cross-section profile rather than half which would seem to be enough to lathe the path.

I created the plate in about 8 mouse clicks in my old version of C4D V6 and imported it as a 3ds file. But I would like to know what is happening in C5.

The method of lathing by drawing the profile in C5 with the very problematic drawing module is certainly an improvment I would like to see in the near future. I admit that having used Illustrator for the last 10 years has made me biased toward the Adobe Bezier curves. Drawing in C5 is sooooo labor intensive and time consuming! I can do it, but the frustration levels incurred are almost too much to bear.

Lathe is probably the wrong term for the spline modeler. By using a circular cross-section, one gets (or basically should get) the same results as lathe, but the spline modeler is actually quite a bit more flexible. Think instead of cross-sections extruded/skinned along a chosen path, in combination with a scaling envelope.

On the positive side, C5 is certainly has a lot of features which give you a lot bang for you buck.

Thanks again,

Rick

Agreed.

rj