Profile

Overview

The Profile Object in Architron allows for extruding a 1D or 2D profile shape along a rail path.
The rail is taken from the parent object, which may be:

• Selected edges of a polygon object

• A Cinema 4D spline

• Selected segments of a NURBS object

This makes the Profile Object suitable for creating trims, moldings, beams, frames, railings, and other architectural details.

Defining the Profile Shape

The profile shape can be defined either:

• as a child object (Cinema 4D spline or NURBS curve), or

• directly inside the Profile Object’s attribute parameters.

This provides flexibility for both reusable profile shapes and quickly defined procedural profiles.

Parametric Edge Support

The Profile Object can now also be generated directly from Parametric Edges:

• When Parametric Edges are present on the parent NURBS object, the Profile Object uses those edge parameters to determine which edges to extrude and how.

• When no parametric edges exist, the Profile Object behaves in the traditional way, generating from the full parent object or from user-selected edges.

This dual-mode behavior ensures complete compatibility with older workflows while adding full support for the new parametric edge system.