Enhancement Request

 From:  Michael Gibson
905.2 In reply to 905.1 
Hi Lish, for the AVI - in MoI you basically use the Edit / Show pts command to enable that type of editing. That will turn points on or off for the selected curves or surfaces.

Things in MoI are set up in a more freeform manner though, there isn't a system of constraints built in to MoI like there is in SolidWorks.

So for example, grabbing and dragging just one corner point in MoI will produce this result:



The way this works is more like how Adobe Illustrator for instance works - you are free to manipulate that shape in any way, it is not constrained to only be a rectangle like it initially was.

To maintain rectangularity, you can select both points for an edge and drag them together:



Right now it is also possible to drag on the edge itself when you have points turned on, however the drag effect will be weighted more towards the point that you are closer to, so it doesn't guarantee maintaining the rectangle. That seems like something that I could tune up in version 2.0 - right now that kind of direct curve dragging is more intended to be used for roughing out a more freeform curve, probably for a line segment it would make sense not to weight it in the same way.


The curvature display is something that I want to add in a future version.

- Michael