"... something that was a kind of quick trim of everything past the end of the curve"

I agree. I think a single click to auto-trim over hanging segments from intersected lines (and join the result) would allow for very fast drawing.

Much like quick hand sketching where you are concentrating on the overall shape (and not clean end points) and go back and erase the over-hanging lines.

I know you can use the current Trim function, but not in a single click as far as I know.

Would be a neat feature especially when used with fillet to round the intersections afterward.

Good for tablet drawing as well.

Ed

Hi Marc, re: Eraser function, are you talking there about something that's just totally driven by mouse movements alone (like cutting things by a roving circle around the mouse basically), or do you mean something that would use other current geometry in the model as the cutters?

- Michael

Hi Michael,

It could work in two modes:

1 : Like some kind of quicktrim where everything under the drag would be cut to the nearest crossing curve.

2 : Like a big lazy eraser using no existing geometry, wiggle and trim in one click.


Both could use a round adjustable radius, like a kind of paintbrush.



An example of the fist behavior, one could swipe through (in red):


And get this result


There could also be an alternate selection mode using this method, sort of paint to select.
It would be quite quick for complex multiple line or point selection...

Just thoughts.


Marc