> I don't find it an inconvenience, it sort of follows the natural
> flow of thought, "I want to extrude this string of curves...this
> direction... then I want to unite/subtract it to/from this solid.

Yeah, but what if it could be "I want to extrude this string of curves... this direction ... done".

Then you want to do another one - pick some other curves, right click to repeat the extrude command, pick the distance, and done again.


The way you are mentioning it here, it almost sounds like you're talking about an additional stage to the extrusion? I mean that after you pick the direction/distance, the command would not end and instead it would ask you if you wanted to do a boolean or not?


> What would happen in the case if the curves you picked were not closed ?

No boolean for that case I don't think - it would just behave the same as currently.

- Michael

Hi Michael,

> I mean that after you pick the direction/distance,
> the command would not end and instead it would
> ask you if you wanted to do a boolean or not?

Well, it doesn't actually ask you for the next stage, all the options are in the one command window.
Almost like the fillet command in MoI, pick edge......input size.....type of fillet....enter

Anyhow, we'll have to wait until you implement the one step extrude/boolean command to comment any further.
Looking forward to it!

Cheers

>>>>But that would not really work for extruding a face rather than curves, since you can't really select a face and also the whole solid that the face belongs to at once...
>>>>

Or would it???? A special face selection drilldown like the edge drilldown that is in swing when doing the extrude.. Select a solid, then on hover the faces are selectable also along with the edges (some kind of rollover like a hatch or something). Only kicks in when auto-bool extrude is in play.

Too complicated?

Hi Burr,

> Too complicated?

Yeah, kind of complicated... I generally try pretty hard to keep selection working in a more uniform way between commands.

- Michael