You're welcome Jamie, I hope it is useful!

> but it would be great if once exploded out of the solid
> the surfaces found the curves that made them so the
> remained editable.

So unfortunately trying to make some kind of persistent deep linkage between objects like you're describing is not really something that's feasible to cook up with a script.

In the future I do want to work on making some deeper history functionality, but that will involve a lot of new core mechanisms and not just scripts.

The way that I would hope to get it working eventually would be that you could set up your curves, create surfaces from them, and then use boolean merge to make the solid part, but each of these steps would be remembered so you could then edit a curve and then those actions would all recalculate.

- Michael

Can you post a little image or a shema of the Scrip explode + untrim
- before / after -

Hi Pilou, there's an image in Jamie's previous post here:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=4068.4

The "UntrimAll" plugin will do a combination of Edit > Separate to break a solid into individual separate surfaces, and then also remove all trim curves from those surfaces so that you'll see the full underlying surfaces (this is the same as selecting all edges of those surfaces and pushing delete).

So if you have a solid like the object on the right-hand side of Jamie's post above, when you run UntrimAll you will get a result with all surfaces untrimmed like the result on the left-hand side of Jamie's image.

- Michael

THX !

Hi Michael

I didn't expect that kind of linking would be possible short term. What you describe is exactly what I would like to see, I guess its a question of managing the flip side of that, like what happens when it goes wrong. Will it confuse people, but I am confident you will find an elegant solution and I look forward to seeing it develop.

thanks again

Jamie

Thanks for the cadjunkies link! I just signed up and I'm looking at some of the freebie videos now.