Hi Michael.
I'm still working my way around all the goodies in MoI and eventually got around to reading the Beta v3 release notes where you say this: "The height of the tapered extrusion will generally be limited to be less than whatever amount would cause the different sloped profiles to collide into one another."
I know this is the norm for all the CAD systems that I've used (not that many), but I wondered why this is the case? Is it too complex to compute the resulting intersections, or something like that?
In some CAM systems, V-carving (using cone shaped cutters) can create constantly varying depth toolpaths that cut surfaces of quite similar shape (carved text etc), so it feels as if the ability might be useful for creating otherwise hard to construct surfaces, as well as being able to extract the centred 3d 'ridge lines' that would also be created.
Thanks.
Martin (2).
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