Am I doing something wrong? If I draw a blobby 2D shape with 10 or 12 control points and then off set it, the new shape has a hundred points. The new curve is almost unusable.

thanks

Thats normal. If you want to reduce the control points in the new curve, you can press tab and then type "rebuild".

thanks!

Hi Shaun, no you're not doing anything wrong, that's just how the Offset function works - the offset function in the geometry library happens to build a quite dense result.

The whole process of doing an offset involves a kind of fitting process that marches along the curve, with NURBS curves you cannot just offset existing control points to make an actual accurate offset curve. See this previous discussion for some more information:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=3838.21

And like Ed mentions, you can use the Rebuild command to simplify the complex offset result to get something more manageable for control point editing:
http://moi3d.com/2.0/docs/moi_command_reference10.htm#rebuild

Probably in the future that rebuild step will happen automatically, I just need to ensure that it maintains the same level of accuracy in the result.

- Michael

Hello Michael,

Would it be possible to someday add a customizable toolbar that you can add buttons for the commands that are not part of the standard UI? maybe it can be a floating tool palette? I like your clean UI, but a little personalization would be nice for frequently used command for a task i'm working on.

Jeff

Hi Jeff, yes in the future I would like to add in some kind of popup toolbox that you could customize.

- Michael