Hi Burr,

> Well, we wont be making the 3 tools, Extrude/Sweep/Revolve, Dynamic! :o

Maybe in the future as some completely separate plug-in command, but it's hard to see how to make it work by modifying the existing command.

Among other things mentioned above, it would probably be pretty awkward to try and fit in a checkbox in the UI that totally changed a command's behavior.

Like with Revolve for example the normal way that it works is that you pick the revolve profile before you even start the Revolve command. Adding in a checkbox that would then ignore the selected profile and let you pick some points would be pretty weird, like what would happen if you then unchecked the checkbox, would your picked points disappear or something like that?

Just the sequence of actions that you are talking about doesn't really fit in with the existing commands, for the kind of "dynamic revolve" like you are talking about you want to have the points picked to define the profile _after_ the revolve axis is set up, it's opposite of the current revolve workflow. It's hard to reconcile such opposite sequences as checkbox options within just a single command - with a totally separate command then it's more feasible.

- Michael

And other thing ;)
appeling creation function in Nurbs mode is some bad
that avoid to think about the generator curves ;)

I understand that you want to see the form as you make the rail but you can always just edit the curve points in MOI after you have made your sweep or revolve and it updates the surface fairly quickly.

Amapi and Hexagon spoiled a lot of people by using their Nurbs and dynamic approach to poly modeling. I use both and have Amapi 8 and I am sure it would have been received very well if it had been released. No other poly modeler really was as versatile in how you can create forms using Nurbs techniques (sweep, extrudes, lofts)

Grendel is one of these happy few with the mythic amapi V8!
I am very jealous :)

As a beta, is Grendel prohibited from passing it to us??? :o (some betas weren't tied to any kind of licensing)

@Burmann : you are a soft dreamer :)

Hahahahaha! Yeah, I just reasearched the old polyloop thread where Thomas talks about the demise, and pretty much got that it is not going to happen... lol

Sorry Burr...I can't share it with anyone...I think that everyone who had Amapi 7.5 should have got it as a parting gift though but there was a lot of flux at the end of Eovia.

Thanks Grendel,
Yeah, I wasnt around in the forum at the time and missed out on grabbing it up, although, my 7.5 works ok for me also... I dont think I'm missing out on a whole bunch..Thanks. :)