Fit bezier to child

[ricmetal]

hello, there
how do i fit a bezier curve to be the exact length of a child, when having the bezier used as the curve modifier of said child, without having to redo the damn thing?

in other words,
is there a way to simply “cut off that extra spline” so the control point is where the child’s mesh ends?
ive tried scaling the curve and moving the contrl points, but it’s always affecting the child.

is there a smart way to do this operation in blender?

[goorman (Sergey)]

Fit Object to Curve Length

So I’m modelling a racetrack in Blender and I’m using Array and Curve modifiers to make it a follow a curve: [http://i.imgur.com/ieuykTa.png] The problem I’m facing now is that I need both ends of the mesh to line with the ends of the curves. I know I could just scale it by hand but that’s not a very elegant solution, is it? Isn’t there some sort of function for this? I would’ve kinda expected the “Fit to Curve” function in the Array modifier to take care of the scaling as well, as this func…

[ricmetal]

thx Sergey

[Matakani]

In your case you could have copied an edge loop from the mesh and converted it to a curve.