redraw curve to reduce points

 From:  Michael Gibson
3838.12 In reply to 3838.10 
Hi Marc,

> Don't know if it has been mentioned before but a slider
> would be a nice functionality in rebuild.

Are you talking about having a slider for the "refit to tolerance" rebuild mode, or the "rebuild by # of sampled points" rebuild mode?

For the refit to tolerance mode, the value used is a distance tolerance value. A slider allows you to pick a range of values between 2 set values at the outside of the range, and for a tolerance value there is not really any good way to pick 2 fixed values for the slider range.

The values you use may be different depending on the scale of the object.

For instance if the slider had a range between 0.01 and 0.5, those would work well for a curve that was about 10 units across. But for a curve that was 1000 units across the entire slider range would be too small in proportion to that object.

It's difficult to have sliders on inputs that use distance values because of the scale-dependent nature of distance values.

- Michael