Thanks Michael! Looking forward to giving it a whirl.

Cheers

The NSided hole filling is pretty cool, as expected. Played around for a few minutes with it, now I'll have to try it out in some production work.

Pardon me Michael, but:

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! (cough) (cough)

Thank you sooooo much for "N-Sided" Michael! :-)



When I get some time soon, I'm going to try some N-Sided problem-solving.

I've already tried on a few strange objects and can acknowledge that it's going to have it's quirkiness as far as "surface continuity", but I am very pleased with what It's able to solve. I'll try to post some pics later.

I'm so pumped, I think I might make a tutorial using it!

Hi,
other news of this beta ?

Thanks

Thanks for the hard work, looking forward to patch up!

Marc

Hi Mike,

> I've already tried on a few strange objects and can acknowledge that it's going to have it's quirkiness
> as far as "surface continuity", but I am very pleased with what It's able to solve. I'll try to post some
> pics later.

Right now it should get G1 continuity, and you are probably thinking about G2... I am still in the process of doing some more experiments with it though, and hopefully I'll be able to improve it some more.

- Michael

Thanks Michael,

It's nice to know that this new tool has promise of more... good luck with its development!


I'll have questions and examples to share with you for sure later...

Sorry I did not get a chance today to update the description for the beta with better details yet - I'll be traveling tomorrow so it may take another day or so.

- Michael

New "Align" -> Move as group !

Like I requested ^^ It's amazing !

Thank you Michael :)

Thank you

I love the new beta, running fine with the new multi touch on the Samsung 500t model.

> New "Align" -> Move as group !

Yup, I almost forgot about that - I hope it's useful! I think there may be also some other thing implemented that you requested as well, something that was not scriptable before or something like that, I'll figure it out when I get a chance to go over the full change list probably tomorrow.

- Michael

Hi Denis,

> I love the new beta, running fine with the new multi touch on the Samsung 500t model.

That's great news! There are some various settings available under Options > View > Rotate/Pan/Zoom settings > Multitouch section, and also a couple of other customizable things in moi.ini too, I'll get a whole list together tomorrow.

- Michael

Hi DesuDeus - now I remember the other new option that's in there that you had asked for, it's one for showing hidden lines only on selected objects instead of showing all hidden lines.

It was a lot more complicated to implement than you might think, since it involved various different things like hit testing, selection, and not just purely display.

But it's in there now, you can turn it on in the Options UI under Options > View > "Hidden edges on selected only".

Also you can flip it on or off by putting this script on a keyboard shortcut:

script: /* Toggle using hidden edge display for selected objects only */ moi.view.hiddenLinesSelectedOnly = !moi.view.hiddenLinesSelectedOnly;


When it's turned on you will only see and snap to and select hidden edges on selected objects when hidden edge display is enabled.

- Michael

ArrayGem now works with point targets.

> showing hidden lines only on selected objects instead of showing all hidden lines


Whoa!

This could be interesting... I can dig it. The ability to see the full hidden line detail only on the object you're working on.


> ArrayGem now works with point targets.


So... maybe ArrayCircular might someday allow you to pick a two-point rotation axis in 3d-space rather than just one point that rotates on the current view or C-plane? ;-) Sorry, had to plug it.

I've been working on gathering up the full release notes, there are a lot of other little bug fixes and various requested things in this version. I hope to have the notes finished up tomorrow, sorry it's taken a while.

- Michael

Hey Michael - Relax dude, it's beta-ware, it's fluid and subject to change!

Have a good trip and enjoy the Easter weekend if you celebrate it ... or not :)

Martin Spencer-Ford

> enjoy the Easter weekend if you celebrate it...

Michael, give your bunny plenty of food and rest Monday, he'll deserve it. ;-)

One thing that I did notice about the Mar beta is that imports work much better than in the other two.

There were several models, some SW native others IGES & STEP, that I had to play with in MoI 2.0 because the V3 beta would not open them.

Mar 18 release runs perfectly on that regard. I don't know if you actually worked on the import engine but something that was done made the import file work much better for me.

mjs

Hi mjs,

> Mar 18 release runs perfectly on that regard. I don't know if
> you actually worked on the import engine but something that
> was done made the import file work much better for me.

That's great news - this version has been updated to use the latest library version for IGES, STEP, and SAT transfer which has some bug fixes in it, and also I've fixed a pretty low level bug in Solids++ involving coincidence checking between closed edge curves which probably helps out some join problems.

Anyway, I'm glad that this release is improving in this regard.

Thanks,
- Michael