Thanks Michael,

I'm looking forward to trying out the new features! :)

Je

Hehe... I was out for couple of days 'cause I was busy and I can see that you are still working pretty hard...! Let's hope that I will be able to spare some time and try new beta out and read all new posts as well.... -Petr

thank you Michael :)

ciao
torolf

Thanks Michael G.! I can't wait to get home and try it out tonight!

This is very good news! Thanks Michael!

Thks for your wonderful soft Michael.

Can u explain again how to use the new div snap option cos I cannot find it anyway.

> Can u explain again how to use the new div snap option cos I cannot find it anyway.

Hi Aeron - here is a better explanation.

To use div snap first you must create a construction line. You create a construction line when you are in a drawing command (for instance Draw curve / line) by clicking and holding down and dragging the mouse instead of clicking and releasing.

After you have done a click + drag to create a construction line, there will be a little tag that appears above your mouse:



If you move your mouse over that tag, it will light up. Click and hold down for a moment on that tag and it will launch a menu, this is where you can define div snap:



For example if you want to snap to thirds along that line (1/3, 2/3, etc..) then put in "3" in that Division snap box.

The divisions are defined between the 2 endpoints of the construction line that you drew. When you draw a construction line, it is defined by 2 points, the point you start the drag at, and the point that you released the mouse over.


Here for example I dragged out a construction line between the ends of 2 other lines, and set up a div snap so now I can snap to 1/3 the distance between those endpoints:



The divisions continue along the entire infinite extent of the construction line, so you can also snap to spots like 41/3 or -7/3, etc... , so it is possible to use the div snap as a type of quick custom spaced grid line.

Let me know if you need any more information on any of the above stuff.

- Michael

Woaw ! Terrific new features there !
I did not even had the time to test the previous version and here is a new one ! ;-)

Michael, I will not say that you're doing a great job or that your software rocks, it's too trivial !
What I will say is that if you come to Belgium one day I will be pleased to pay you some beers ! ;-)

Great great stuff, as usual.
You're about to create THE software that will open NURBS to "standard" polygonal users and hobbyists.
If one day the "NURBS way" of creating objects is used by a lot of persons, you can bet you will be the one that will be responsible for the whole thing.
Pilou started a thread here, in France at www.zbrush.fr, at http://forum.zbrush.fr/index.php/topic,1463.0.html
Pilou and Schbeurd present the new functions as soon as you create them. Thanks to them, french users of Zbrush and visitors of the forum can view the wonderful work you realize. I wish to thank them for their great work, their help, and you for this marvelous piece of software.

Alexis

>> Thanks to them, french users of Zbrush and visitors of the forum...

You mean french speaking users of ZBrush... ;-)

Added a summary of the release note on ZBrush.fr and on the French forum here at Moi3D

Thanks for the kind words Alexis ! ;-)

Once again, awesome work Michael!
Looking forward to poking around with the new features!

"Gordon surface"

thank you Michael...

those who ever worked with Studiotools can understand why this is one of the most wanted feature...

next one is progressive radius fillets / chamferts....

i hope i'll be able to buy moi3D v1.0 for my school within next summer hollydays...

regards.

Hi,

great new version. The curve projection stuff is the most usefull feature to me. :)

I've updated the German translation.

MfG
sk2k

Thanks for this update Michael! I haven't been playing with MoI for the past week, but am looking forward to modeling something this weekend with the new beta.

Hi Michael,

I have two notes concerning the new beta...

Are you going to tune network surface command up so it can also handle non-intersecting curves? And what about some tolerance input for driving a surface? It would help users create a surface from roughly sketched curves.

For projecting I wish I can deselect unwanted projected curve by clicking on it (or in a different way) before command is done. It makes sense when curve is projected on both the closest side and opposite one (e.g. circle and sphere).

Petr

Spanish translation added.

New stuff translation added in the Spanish forum.

Enjoy it! :-)

Good job with the Network tool Michael. As simple as the image below, only the Network tool
could do it accurately. Of course there are other tools. You might want to try. ;-)

Btw, only four curves were used in this case. Three, lenghtwise, and one, crosswise, which is in the middle.

You could see these shapes in some mechanical part such as
the nose of an electric drill or handles.



Or as shapes to subtract from a boolean difference.

Hi Petr,

> Are you going to tune network surface command up so it can also handle non-intersecting curves?

It should generally handle non-intersecting curves already, although I have seen a couple of instances where non-intersecting curves will cause a crease in the resulting surface. I may be able to tune this up a but I'm not sure.

Do you have a non-intersecting network that is not working as you would expect? If so, please post it.


> And what about some tolerance input for driving a surface?

I want to work on an area related to this pretty soon, which is a rebuilding step for commands that need to merge multiple curves into one common structure. This will apply to Loft, Sweep, and Network. But I was planning on trying to do something automatically, instead of using any additional tolerance settings.

Do you have an example of the type of thing you would use the tolerance for?


> For projecting I wish I can deselect unwanted projected curve by clicking on it
> (or in a different way) before command is done.

I'm not quite sure how to set this up. Right now you are able to pick a point to define the start point of a new projection direction. Normally I can't do a "selection click" and a "point pick" click all at the same time.

I guess there could be another button that said something like "delete projections", but at that point it doesn't seem to be gaining very much compared to just deleting the unwanted pieces after the command is finished.

Any ideas?

Thanks for your feedback!

- Michael