Flow Frustration

 From:  Michael Gibson
10318.12 In reply to 10318.10 
Hi Andy,

re:
> But for me as a user I am clicking on the end of a line and clicking on the point of a circle so I would
> expect intuitively that the software matches those two points up.

Let me try another way to describe it - when you pick the target curve in the Flow command, you are in the "select an object" type of action (object picker is active). That's different than the "pick a point" type action where things like snaps are available (where a point picker is active).

The pick point in the "select an object" type action is only used in MoI to determine things like which end of an open curve was closest to your mouse. It isn't used anywhere to generate a point somewhere on the interior of a closed curve which is what you are describing.

The problem with trying to use it for that is that you would not have good control over the point location because you don't have object snaps going then. So the point that you would get would be some fairly arbitrary location. If you wanted to control it to be at an intersection with another curve or something like that you would not be able to get that.

- Michael