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Right but remember when you are sweeping a curve, the rail it moves along wants to rotate that curve in such a way that may cause the CV’s in the opposite direction to no longer be where you think they will be. When you force them to, it can break the continuity along the opposite plane because of that transformation.

I model stuff in quarters all the time, you just need to make sure the curves you start with want to allow that.