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Hi Martin,

re:
> Is there a way to retain the part that is cut out and discarded from an internal shell action?
> I'm thinking that Keeping that part might be useful for cores in casting work.

If you want to generate a solid for the inner void, that should be possible either by using the Offset command instead of Shell, or you can also convert a result from Shell with an inner void and convert it into 2 solids by selecting it and then use Edit > Separate to break it into individual surfaces followed by Edit > Join.

Join does not try to generate inner void cavities.

To go back the other way if you have 2 solids and you want one to be a void cavity, you can use Boolean difference to make that. Select the outer solid as the base object and the inner one as the cutting object.

- Michael

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Rotation hooked up now too.

It is fitting in seamlessly, no new commands or even any new UI needed!




- Michael

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Nice, I was secretly hoping for this, but I didn't want to put pressure :) ... super handy for shape exploration !

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This is gold :D

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Dynamic modeling indeed! :)

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Heaven...

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Very nice indeed!

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The new tool is extremely useful. The way it fits in the current toolset...beautiful.

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Ok, building new beta release now.

- Michael

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New Sep-17-2025 v5 beta version now available at
https://moi3d.com/beta.htm

Will be working on full release notes a bit later, there are more functions integrated from the ACIS geometry kernel.

Selected faces can now be manipulated with the Transform > Move, Transform > Rotate and Transform > Rotate Axis
commands. This uses the ACIS direct model editing component to extend and intersect surrounding faces to
accommodate the change.

Enables dynamic editing of solids like this:






New RemoveAndFill command - use Shift+Delete keyboard shortcut or Shift+click or right click on Delete button to invoke ACIS Remove component that deletes faces and then heals the resulting openings by extending and intersecting surrounding faces:




ACIS Shell function is now used by the MoI Construct > Offset > Shell command.


Also lots of fixes for ACIS filleting.


- Michael

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French version! ;)
https://moiscript.weebly.com/

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Smooth!

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Very cool, thanks Michael. Going to install it right away.

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Hi Michael.

Thanks for the advice on using the Offset tool - it worked beautifully.

With the new Delete Face tool I'm able to discard any superfluous parts to get the cores as I want them.

All the new features are working great with only the occasional 'phantom surface' when I Shell fairly complex parts. I could send a file if you need one.

As I only have a slow laptop, I can get a significant lag when using the new Move Face tool as MoI updates whilst trying to keep up with mouse movement, so I wondered if the live update could somehow be suspended until Moi had locked onto an intersection point or maybe turned off if necessary?


Thanks again.
Martin.

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Hi Martin,

re:
> All the new features are working great with only the occasional 'phantom surface'
> when I Shell fairly complex parts. I could send a file if you need one.

Yes it would be helpful to get the file, especially before doing the shell so I can repeat the steps.
Please e-mail it to me at moi@moi3d.com .

> As I only have a slow laptop, I can get a significant lag when using the new Move Face
> tool as MoI updates whilst trying to keep up with mouse movement, so I wondered if
> the live update could somehow be suspended until Moi had locked onto an intersection
> point or maybe turned off if necessary?

I'll put in an option for this.

Thanks, - Michael

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