Can You help me about this command....
many thanks
al

Hi Al, some information on the Rebuild command here:
http://moi3d.com/2.0/docs/moi_command_reference10.htm#rebuild

It's sort of like an automated way that traces a new curve over top of an existing one, it can help to simplify a curve that is overly complex or messy.

- Michael

Hello Michael,

Could we have a slider for the tolerance (and possibly the number of points) with the Rebuild command ? Like for adjusting the bulge in the Blends. That might be useful and avoid using a trial and error to find just how much of a simplification we need with the rebuilt curve.

Just a thought.

Jean-Paul Binot

Hi Jean-Paul - it's kind of hard to have a slider for distance values that are scale dependent.

For Blend it works more easily because the blend value is a kind of "scale factor" and not just a direct distance value.

For values that represent a distance, it's hard to decide what the lower and upper bounds should be for the slider range, because the values you may want to use are more dependent on the scale of the object you are working on.

- Michael

I see. As an alternative, could we have an option to have a number of 'draft' rebuilt curves generator on either side of one made from user-defined parameters. Say a -2, -1, 1 and 2 drafted on either side of a '0' that the user would have input ? I guess all this would take would be multiple executions of the same Rebuild routine; The tricky part would be to have an elegant way to select the desired curve out of the 5 (or whatever) generated.

But I am prone to over-engineering, I know. :)

Jean-Paul

Hi Jean-Paul, you mean having a preview of several choices that were set side-by-side to one another?

I guess then the problem would be, what values to use for those 5 different curves, I guess that would require some fairly elaborate UI to switch between different setting groups....

Also imagine if you have a curve that has a closed shape - it could be pretty easy for the 5 different previews to be overlapping on top of each other making for a kind of chaotic display.

- Michael

Okay. Thanks for entertaining my overengineering-ness. :)

Just to chime in here, the rebuild command DOES preview the value you enter, before you are required to commit it.. So if you just type in a value and hit enter, then the curve will update to reflect this value, then when you see what you like, you can right clcik (or choose done) to commit the value.

Hi (BurrMan )
That it's this I wanted to say
Bravo !!!
al