MoI direct model editing....almost.
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 From:  DannyT (DANTAS)
7255.5 In reply to 7255.4 
Hi Michael,

I see. You're thinking for all scenarios where someone might want to edit the control points, I understand, I'm looking at it as in the Engineering point of view where control points in a model are never moved.

Thanks anyway, I can always go the extra step and delete those surfaces and use Construct > Planar to make nice single surfaces.

Cheers
~Danny~
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 From:  Michael Gibson
7255.6 In reply to 7255.5 
Hi Danny, well in addition to moving control points there are some functions like Flow where the particular control point structure of the surface has an impact... So replacing surfaces in extrude could then have a side effect of some unwanted changes in behavior when then using flow on that surface afterwards.

I actually do have a similar type of surface replacement mechanism in Revolve currently, where if you have a line perpendicular to the revolve axis it gets replaced by a trimmed plane just like that, and it has indeed gotten a couple of people confused when using Flow with those particular surfaces...

On the plus side a simple plane surface does tend to work better for intersections calculations.

- Michael
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