Hi neo, so the other general problem is that it is just far, far more time intensive to design UI that is tablet friendly.

I'm glad that I focused on it early in MoI's design, because it helped me to start from scratch and do some stuff that was fresh and new instead of just doing the "standard app" dropdown menu + toolbar type thing.

I am careful to not disturb the existing tablet friendly nature of MoI when adding in new functions, but it is just not possible for me to take the design time to have every single new feature be "heads up tablet enabled" in all cases.... It is just too time intensive, the reality would be that I would not be able to add in as many functions.

So the main choice with this loop selection for example is to have it as something you can set up as a keyboard shortcut, or to not have it all until some time in the future when I could spend all the time that would be necessary to consider how to make it work in a "heads up" manner if that is even possible (possible to do without making a decrease in overall usability in the long term I mean).

Which do you think would be the better choice in this case - do you think it would be better if it was not added in at all?

It would be cool if I could magically have 72 hours of work in a day to have more design time, but I'm limited to only 24 hours in a day.

- Michael

just to clarify I did mention that I use Cintiq 21UX on my first post, the SpaceClaim MultiTouch link was more of a show case on finger gestures in a CAD application...

also last thing I want is to play/sketch on a iphone on the other hand using SketchBook & MoI on tablet it does make sense to me.

perhaps there is a language barrier here :(

Hi neo,

> the SpaceClaim MultiTouch link was more of a show case on
> finger gestures in a CAD application...

It does look pretty cool! I wish that I had more time available to me so that I could play around with it and experiment with some similar stuff.

But sadly my time is limited and there is currently more mainstream type stuff that needs attention first.


> also last thing I want is to play/sketch on a iphone

I am confused now - why did you specifically mention the iphone/ipod touch as an example then?


At any rate, like I mentioned it is important to me to not mess up the stuff in MoI that does work well on a tablet currently.


I understand that you wish that I could work 100% of the time only on refining MoI for multi-touch. But that's just not what the larger number of my user base needs for me to be focused on.

- Michael

Hi Michael,

I've set up a shortcut key for this inline script / MoI edge loop select function:

script: /*Edge loop selection*/ moi.geometryDatabase.selectLoop();

But a lot of the time when I select two edges and run the script, the result is not as I'd expect. Here's an illustration:



The first image shows two edges I selected, the second image shows the result, and the third image shows the selection I'd love to see.

Is there maybe a possible workaround or different approach to get the desired edge loop selection?

Many thanks.

Hi Metin,

> Is there maybe a possible workaround or different approach to get the desired edge loop selection?

Sorry no, not currently. Right now the loop selection mechanism works as described here:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=3112.22
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=3112.32

It tries to target a trimming loop on one face. The result you are looking for is crossing over 3 different faces it looks like.

- Michael

Thanks Michael,

It'd be great if you could maybe add recognition of edge continuity across faces to the V4 features, for easier edge loop selections. I use those edge loop selections a lot for fillets.

+1 to this request please!



Something like this, so the red lined loop would be selected, not the current yellow selection.

Thanks,
t

Hi Tover, can you please post your .3dm model file or e-mail it to me at moi@moi3d.com so I can take a look?

- Michael