pymel.core.modeling.offsetCurve¶

offsetCurve(*args, **kwargs)¶

The offset command creates new offset curves from the selected curves. The connecting type for breaks in offsets is off (no connection), circular (connect with an arc) or linear (connect linearly resulting in a sharp corner). If loop cutting is on then any loops in the offset curves are trimmed away. For the default cut radius of 0.0 a sharp corner is created at each intersection. For values greater than 0.0 a small arc of that radius is created at each intersection. The cut radius value is only valid when loop cutting is on. Offsets (for planar curves) are calculated in the plane of that curve and 3d curves are offset in 3d. The subdivisionDensity flag is the maximum number of times the offset object can be subdivided (i.e. calculate the offset until the offset comes within tolerance or the iteration reaches this maximum.) The reparameterize option allows the offset curve to have a different parameterization to the original curve. This avoids uneven parameter distributions in the offset curve that can occur with large offsets of curves, but is more expensive to compute.

Flags:

Long Name / Short Name		Argument Types	Properties
caching / cch		bool
	Toggle caching for all attributes so that no recomputation is needed
connectBreaks / cb		int
	Connect breaks method (between gaps): 0 - off, 1 - circular, 2 - linear Default:2
constructionHistory / ch		bool
	Turn the construction history on or off.
cutLoop / cl		bool
	Do loop cutting. Default:false
cutRadius / cr		float
	Loop cut radius. Only used if cutLoop attribute is set true. Default:0.0
distance / d		float
	Offset distance Default:1.0
frozen / fzn		bool
name / n		unicode
	Sets the name of the newly-created node. If it contains namespace path, the new node will be created under the specified namespace; if the namespace does not exist, it will be created.
nodeState / nds		int
	Maya dependency nodes have 6 possible states. The Normal (0), HasNoEffect (1), and Blocking (2)states can be used to alter how the graph is evaluated. The Waiting-Normal (3), Waiting-HasNoEffect (4), Waiting-Blocking (5)are for internal use only. They temporarily shut off parts of the graph during interaction (e.g., manipulation). The understanding is that once the operation is done, the state will be reset appropriately, e.g. Waiting-Blockingwill reset back to Blocking. The Normaland Blockingcases apply to all nodes, while HasNoEffectis node specific; many nodes do not support this option. Plug-ins store state in the MPxNode::stateattribute. Anyone can set it or check this attribute. Additional details about each of these 3 states follow. StateDescriptionNormalThe normal node state. This is the default.HasNoEffectThe HasNoEffectoption (a.k.a. pass-through), is used in cases where there is an operation on an input producing an output of the same data type. Nearly all deformers support this state, as do a few other nodes. As stated earlier, it is not supported by all nodes. Its typical to implement support for the HasNoEffectstate in the nodes compute method and to perform appropriate operations. Plug-ins can also support HasNoEffect. The usual implementation of this state is to copy the input directly to the matching output without applying the algorithm in the node. For deformers, applying this state leaves the input geometry undeformed on the output. BlockingThis is implemented in the depend node base class and applies to all nodes. Blockingis applied during the evaluation phase to connections. An evaluation request to a blocked connection will return as failures, causing the destination plug to retain its current value. Dirty propagation is indirectly affected by this state since blocked connections are never cleaned. When a node is set to Blockingthe behavior is supposed to be the same as if all outgoing connections were broken. As long as nobody requests evaluation of the blocked node directly it wont evaluate after that. Note that a blocked node will still respond to getAttrrequests but a getAttron a downstream node will not reevaluate the blocked node. Setting the root transform of a hierarchy to Blockingwont automatically influence child transforms in the hierarchy. To do this, youd need to explicitly set all child nodes to the Blockingstate. For example, to set all child transforms to Blocking, you could use the following script. import maya.cmds as cmds def blockTree(root): nodesToBlock = [] for node in {child:1 for child in cmds.listRelatives( root, path=True, allDescendents=True )}.keys(): nodesToBlock += cmds.listConnections(node, source=True, destination=True ) for node in {source:1 for source in nodesToBlock}.keys(): cmds.setAttr( ‘%s.nodeState’ % node, 2 ) Applying this script would continue to draw objects but things would not be animated. Default:kdnNormal
normal / nr		float, float, float
	Offset plane normal
object / o		bool
	Create the result, or just the dependency node.
range / rn		bool
	Force a curve range on complete input curve. Flag can have multiple arguments, passed either as a tuple or a list.
reparameterize / rp		bool
	Do reparameterization. It is not advisable to change this value. Default:false
stitch / st		bool
	Stitch curve segments together. It is not advisable to change this value. Default:true
subdivisionDensity / sd		int
	Maximum subdivision density per span Default:5
tolerance / tol		float
	Tolerance Default:0.01
useGivenNormal / ugn		bool
	Use the given normal (or, alternativelly, geometry normal) Default:1 Common flags

Derived from mel command maya.cmds.offsetCurve

Example:

import pymel.core as pm

# offset all active curves to the specified distance:
pm.offsetCurve( d=4.0 )

# create offsets for the specified curve and turn loop cutting off:
pm.offsetCurve( 'curve1', cl=False)

# create offsets with circular arcs at the breaks in the curve and use
# a cutting radius of 2.0 if there are any loops in the offsets:
pm.offsetCurve( 'curve1', cb=1, cl=True, cr=2.0 )