"dynamic extrude"

 From:  Michael Gibson
3966.29 In reply to 3966.28 
Hi Burr,

> Well, we wont be making the 3 tools, Extrude/Sweep/Revolve, Dynamic! :o

Maybe in the future as some completely separate plug-in command, but it's hard to see how to make it work by modifying the existing command.

Among other things mentioned above, it would probably be pretty awkward to try and fit in a checkbox in the UI that totally changed a command's behavior.

Like with Revolve for example the normal way that it works is that you pick the revolve profile before you even start the Revolve command. Adding in a checkbox that would then ignore the selected profile and let you pick some points would be pretty weird, like what would happen if you then unchecked the checkbox, would your picked points disappear or something like that?

Just the sequence of actions that you are talking about doesn't really fit in with the existing commands, for the kind of "dynamic revolve" like you are talking about you want to have the points picked to define the profile _after_ the revolve axis is set up, it's opposite of the current revolve workflow. It's hard to reconcile such opposite sequences as checkbox options within just a single command - with a totally separate command then it's more feasible.

- Michael