Hi Dimitri, thanks for the example - yes deformations are particularly useful for the area of jewelry. If MoI was a more specialized program that was totally dedicated to jewelry design and not other types of modeling, that would definitely make sense for a cage deformation to be a top priority like you are requesting. But MoI is not a specialized program like that, it's a general purpose modeling program used in quite a variety of design fields.
So in general for prioritizing I go by more of a feel for how much a particular function will pay off for how many people.
This is not to say that jewelry design is not being considered - in fact a major reason why the Flow command was prioritized earlier on was due to it having very large benefits in jewelry design while also being beneficial to some other design areas as well.
But there are other areas that are typically part of a CAD program's toolset that need more attention at the moment.
There does exist a workable solution for doing cage deformations which is to use Rhino along with MoI and use the CageEdit command in Rhino to perform that function.
> I have a ring, for example, I do measure -with the add-on script that measures the distances- its
> finger hole but can not change it so that all the ring may change uniformly according to the new
> dimension. It would be great to see such a tool in the new version!
Can you please post an example ring that you want to change in this way so I could be sure I understand it properly?
- Michael
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