Hi Burr, actually it does work like that so you may like to use the value in that way.

For example here is one with Rho = 0.5 :


And here Rho = 0.6 :


And here Rho = 0.8 :



As the value moves towards 0 it becomes flatter, here is Rho = 0.01 :



The category of conic section is also related to the Rho value.

With Rho = 0.5, the curve is a segment of a parabola.

With Rho > 0.5 and < 1, the curve is a segment of a hyperbola.

With Rho < 0.5, the curve is a segment of an ellipse.

- Michael

Hi Michael,

Is this going to be a keyboard shortcut or are you adding it to the Draw curve icon set ?

Cheers

Hi Danny,

> Is this going to be a keyboard shortcut or are you
> adding it to the Draw curve icon set ?

I think I'm going to add it under Draw curve > More > Conic , beside Helix.

- Michael

Excellent, Michael, great addition to MoI!

-Will

Here's where the new conic command will live in the UI:



- Michael

Just stay now one place free here or can you have more levels possible? :)

Hi Pilou, I generally try pretty hard to figure out other possible ways to add functions without adding too many icons...

But in the future it will be possible for me to add more than one additional item there. It will wrap and expand to take up multiple lines if necessary, like this:



- Michael

Saved :)

very nice addition :)

Hi Michael

Great you could get this done so quickly. Looking forward to the next beta to try it out.

I like the interaction shown the tan/tan snap. I understand the command creates a curve object so the rho value is not editable after creation. Will be nice when this type of history is built in.

Jamie