Hello,

I was wondering if you plan to have a feature to move edges or faces in the upcoming V4 or in the future. This feature is available in many CAD programs but most notably Shapr3D & Fusion 360. It's very convenient and allows for faster iteration of shapes and not huge amount of time wasted rebuilding surfaces. In fusion you can even rotate the faces in crazy ways allowing for more design exploration. Before anyone tells me to use alternative software, I don't want to. I love Moi3D and this is the only feature missing for me personally.

Shapr3D Moving Edges: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIUQN1c_riU

Fusion 360 Moving Faces: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwgqnNOIeyQ



Best regards,

Gregori Vorontsov

Hi Gregori , you can use the Construct > Extrude command to get some level of that currently. If you extrude a face sub-object of a solid it will automatically perform a boolean with the main piece, so you can get results like this:



Moving edges is usually something that is done in a polygon modeling program and not in a CAD program like MoI, because of the differences in how objects are structured. In a polygon modeling program every edge you see is the boundary of a polygon surface. In a CAD program there is a concept that "trim edges" can be floating on a larger "underlying surface" and mark different areas of it as holes. There is some description of that here:
http://moi3d.com/faq#Q:_Why_does_show_points_work_for_some_objects_but_not_others.3F

So in a CAD program "moving an edge" requires a potentially complex fitting operation where some much larger underlying surface would need to be modified to go through the new trim curve position. It can make for pretty complex and surprising results, it's not like in a polygon modeling program where the behavior is consistent and predictable.

- Michael

Thank you for the swift reply. I know you can use the Extrude command for certain kinds of faces effectively, it almost feels like an early implementation of a moving faces command. I definitely hope the implementation of a more advanced moving faces / moving edges command is on the roadmap for the future, at least to keep Moi the amazing tool that it is for quickly laying down a design or an idea.



Best regards,

Gregori Vorontsov

Hi Gregori, moving faces is on my radar for the future but moving edges is not because of the problems I mentioned previously. Modeling by moving edges around is better done in a polygon modeling program than in a CAD program.

- Michael