Thanks Michael.

Re the complexity stuff; no worries - c'est la vie.
Thanks for the info re posting suggestions and the wiki wishlist too.


Your suggestions gave me another idea for creating 'partial-tapered' extrusions, which is to 'loft the tapered faces as a surface between top and bottom curves':




This method can result in zero trimming operations being required, especially if the initial offset is done with the outline curve incomplete where the 'extrude-normal' face is desired.

As an experiment, I tried closing the top and bottom curves just prior to lofting. Doing so required untwisting the automatic loft guide curve; so the open curve method in the animation is less hassle overall.

Hope it might be useful to someone else.


Edit: And then I discovered DannyT's Accurate Tapers video - which is a much better way. Thanks DannyT.

Cheers,
Hamish