Hi Michael T -
I guess it is easy to get tripped up on terminology here. When I say that in the future MoI will have additional parametric functionality added, I mean it in a pretty general sense. That is that it should be possible to modify some values (for example the radius of a fillet), and then basically have that command automatically run again to generate an updated model.
This will be an optional thing that will show up in some kind of object history browser.
It won't fundamentally change the workflow of how you draw things in MoI - like for example it doesn't mean that MoI will force you to define sketch planes, etc... MoI will remain a sort of loose and free drawing environment as it currently is.
If you don't go to the history browser to change anything, you won't notice any differences from the current appoach. Well, except your files may be bigger due to additional data being stored, but I'll be sure to have a way to turn that off as well.
That's the idea anyway. So it won't really bring about any major workflow restructuring in MoI, if that is what you are worried about.
It also won't have all the exact same functionality as a "parametric solid modeler", but it will let you alter "parameters"...
Anyway, I'm not sure when this will be available, it might be a while.
- Michael
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