Hi Pitrak,

> 1. Will rebuild curves (planes?) be part of the 2.0 release?

No, but I do want to add it in at some point, probably in v3 when I have a better spot to put a list of additional functions in the UI.


> 2. Would it be possible to have offset rebuilding curves as
> standard behaviour? So if you offset a curve with 5 control
> points, you get one with 5 control points as well - at the
> corresponding locations? Maybe with a "auto, exact, ..." option?

It's generally not possible to produce an actual offset curve by only using the same number of points except in special cases.

Offsetting changes the shape and proportions of a curve, it is not really like other transforms such as moving or rotating. Because of that the offset curve is generated by a kind of fitting process and not just by transforming control points.

I do want to try some things to reduce the complexity of offset curves in the future though.

- Michael

Ok, thanks!
1. The plugin works perfect as it is, so it doesn't really matter for me.
2. That's what I assumed was the problem. In my case however the difference is very small. I'm modelling a highway interchange, using offset for the width of the roads. So there's no need for all those extra control points. That's why an extra option might be useful: in a lot of cases, a curve with the same amount of control points would be precise enough and more convenient overall. In other cases the difference would be problematic of course.

One thing I just noticed: when rebuilding a curve it changes to the current style. The script is probably from before 'styles'. Anyone knows how to change the script so it keeps its style?

Another minor bug with Rebuild Curves and the august beta: if you undo after a rebuild curve, the original curve is locked..

This is a MoI's feature ;) The Hide or Lock commands aren't regular ones - you can use them while running another command (e.g. boolean diff). And when you launch some command (e.g. to draw curve) after using hide or lock there is no way to undo the state of view considering visibility. -Petr

Hi Petr,
In the scene browser under styles, there is now a lock icon instead of an eye. Clicking this hides the object for me. Does this not work for you? Or were you refering to something else?

Burr

Hi pitrak,

> One thing I just noticed: when rebuilding a curve it changes
> to the current style. The script is probably from before
> 'styles'. Anyone knows how to change the script so it
> keeps its style?

It's not so easy to make the script handle this at the moment, but I have added some additional script methods for the next v2 release which will make it possible to adjust this in the next beta.

- Michael

Hi Petr, re: Lock - actually what happens in this case is the rebuild command locks the input objects, and if that object is then deleted with a call to moi.geometryDatabase.removeObjects() it will get recorded on the undo stack with that locked property set.

So this can be fixed by just unlocking the objects before they are deleted in RebuildCurve.js .


For the next v2 release I've also added some methods on factories so that it is easier to retrieve the objects that were generated and inserted into the geometry database with a regular factory update() call.

- Michael

>> So this can be fixed by just unlocking the objects before they are deleted in RebuildCurve.js

I fixed that a few weeks ago and put the updated version there... -Petr