Hi Marc,

> It could be the number of points based on
> percentage where 100% would be the actual
> number of points, and 0% the lowest possible.

But there is no limit on the upper number of points - using the Rebuild command does not really have anything to do with the current number of control points in the object. It's sort of similar to drawing a new curve with Draw curve > "Through points" and snapping the newly drawn curve on to the existing one with "on" object snap.

It's not only used for reducing the number of control points in a curve, you can also use it to increase the number of control points in a curve so that you can do more bendy edits.

Here's an example - I started with the rectangle on the left which as you can see has very sparse control points. Then I used Rebuild, # of points mode with 10 points per segment so that I could squish the rectangle around:




Rebuild can be used for more than 1 purpose like this, reducing control point count is not its only function.


> Or maybe it could work with tolerance values as well,
> proportional to the scale of the objects.

I worry a bit about using distance values in this way, it means that you can't be sure to have the same distance value used on 2 different objects.

- Michael