how to create a circle perpendicular to a line and the centre of the circle is located at one end of the line?
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how to create a circle perpendicular to a line?
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Copy SOP.
On the line, use the PolyFrame SOP and set Tangent to N or normals. Then use a Copy SOP to copy the circle on the XY plane (facing the Z direction as the Copy SOP uses Z as the aim look-at direction to align to N normals or v velocity).
To copy the circle to one of the end ponts on the line, it's either 0 or $NPT-1 in the Template Point Group parameter.
See attached example file.
It is wise to add an UP vector to the line as well to control the rotation
Now there are a great many ways to orient faces to vectors but the Copy SOP makes it easy.
On the line, use the PolyFrame SOP and set Tangent to N or normals. Then use a Copy SOP to copy the circle on the XY plane (facing the Z direction as the Copy SOP uses Z as the aim look-at direction to align to N normals or v velocity).
To copy the circle to one of the end ponts on the line, it's either 0 or $NPT-1 in the Template Point Group parameter.
See attached example file.
It is wise to add an UP vector to the line as well to control the rotation
Now there are a great many ways to orient faces to vectors but the Copy SOP makes it easy.
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