Lofting path verticex handles

[markf]

I am trying to adjust the path in a loft. I cannot see the bezier handles of the vertex when selected. If I move the cursor around and get lucky I can mange to get a hold of a handle and move it to adjust the path curvature. But I cannot see the handles in the viewport. This is causing me much aggravation.

 

Anyone else experience this and have any solution?

 

Thanks.

[Tyorl]

Try to "Put" your path as instance and align it with your loft.

[markf]

Thnaks for the suggestion, I'll give it a try. It occured to me that this may be a good reason to not delete the path used to create the loft. If I still had the original path perhaps I could adjust it rather than trying to adjust the path that is embedded as a sub object of the loft.

[Guest nazcaLine]

sometimes, i don't know why, the bezier handles dissapear, mostly when converting from linear vertez to bezier or bezier-corner. the solution is select he vertex, right click over it, and select "reset tangents".

good luck.

 

Eduardo

[SandmanNinja]

Thnaks for the suggestion, I'll give it a try. It occured to me that this may be a good reason to not delete the path used to create the loft. If I still had the original path perhaps I could adjust it rather than trying to adjust the path that is embedded as a sub object of the loft.

 

Yes. That's the power of loft and sweep - to take the complex shape that results and 'go back down' to one of the primitives and modify it easily.

 

I usually keep my shapes on their own layer and when I don't need them, hide the layer.

[markf]

Thanks for your suggestion. I did try that "reset tangents" but it had no affect.

 

I also should mention that I created the loft (of a curb and gutter) and then added some vertices to this path to make it conform to a revised layout. So maybe it's especially problematic with pathe that have had vertices added after the loft was created?

 

Thanks again.