Hi Michael,

I have collected a couple of difficult situations for fillets and booleans, which I will go through in both Moi and Rhino at work tomorrow.
Moi seems to be good at these things, and does some things that Rhino can't do automatically. I guess that's important since many Moi users are also Rhino users.

- Could a Merge-function that merges co-circular, co-conic and co-planar surfaces be made?
All co-linear single curved surfaces in other words.
(The yellow part in the picture has two co-circular faces).
If it's a reasonable wish, I wish for it. This would make clean models easier to keep clean and to work on with.

While wishing, view clipping objects in 3D viewport with would be nice. Like L- shaped clipping planes, or S-shapes, or even double curved clipping objects (with adjustable thickness colors). I will try to explain better tomorrow.
Good Night!


Thanks for the advice too!

- Fredrik

Hi Fredrik,

I have added your requests to the wiki wishlist: http://moi3d.com/wiki/Wishlist


> - Could a Merge-function that merges co-circular, co-conic
> and co-planar surfaces be made?

For planar surfaces, this kind of merging should be happening automatically in boolean operations, for example taking these 3 boxes:



And then doing boolean union on them will produce this result:



As you can see the co-planar top parts were merged into one single plane.

I have noticed that this merging does not happen in all cases though, if you run across examples where it does not work please send them to me at moi@moi3d.com so I can get them logged as bugs to get fixed up.

I added merging of compatible extrusions and conic sections to the wishlist, but it is not really a particularly easy thing to do in all cases, it will probably be a while before that can happen.

There can be some additional merging that happens now if the pieces involved are trimmed pieces from a larger common surface. That's why the Crown of Clubs tutorial (from here: http://moi3d.com/1.0/docs/tutorials.htm) creates such a clean final shape.

- Michael

I haven't posted any new work in a while so
I thought I'd upload this charm I'm working on.

MoI's filleting tools really rock!

-Jesse

cool Charm Jesse!
-F

Thanks Fredrik :-)

-J