Hello.

I'm a new MoI user and I'm toying around with the various functions to get myself acquainted with the program and learn how to use the various tools.

1. I have a lot of experience with 123D Design from Autodesk and I was wondering if it is possible to push or pull faces of Solids in Moi like you can in that application.

I've tried using the move tool to move faces without separating them from the solid, which did not do anything. And then I tried to use the extrude tool. Which did not work for elongating a rifled barrel. The rifling, which was of ratchet type, had no twist to it yet but the extrude still failed. It would not extrude one of the ends of the rifled barrel.

I can use extrude to resize simple shapes but even then, it seems to leave an edge or crease behind where the walls used to end before I used extrude to lengthen the solid. Please see the hollowed cylinder in the screenshot for what I mean. And, as mentioned above, it seems to fail entirely for complex faces.

I suppose I could use resize instead but that's cumbersome and only works for a pipe or other simple solid where it doesn't matter the entire part gets resized along one axis.

2. I'd like to know if it is possible to reshape flat / planar profiles by pushing or pulling on an edge. Right now it seems to me you basically have to draw the new boundaries then use boolean merge on the two coplanar profiles to resize the outer perimeter of a profile, for example.

3. I'd also like to know whether solids can have their points shown or just disjointed curves and faces.

Thank you for your time and help.