Bug: Subobject Face Color Assignment

[wim (Wim Dekeyser)]

Hi Mitch -
I’ve spent a few hours on this now…

@Helvetosaur

[…] and I have never heard a valid argument justifying its existence since then.

FWIW, you state the valid argument here:

Pointsnap on vertices

This has also been a problem for me and most of the time I have UseExtrusions set to off… I have argued in the past for this to be set to off by default, but there is also strong argument for having it on - notably the one-way conversion from extrusions to polysurfaces much like going from NURBS to meshes. If you make a couple of thousand extrusions, it’s easy to convert them all to normal surfaces/polysurfaces with a couple of clicks, but if you start out with polysurfaces, and you want extru…

I just tried the test command Pascal mentioned in that thread, and that fails miserably. Also, it requires you to pick an edge for every single object…

At any rate, the aim has always been that extrusion objects are converted on-the-fly when necessary. When it doesn’t - as in the case of this thread - that’s a bug that needs to be fixed.

With all that said, my default is, and will be, to create polysurfaces when extruding something…

Also, and off-topic, thanks for making me look -

Gumball: Does not "Align to Object" for an Extrusion

We could have the same discussion over default tolerance settings or if CheckNewObjects is turned on by default. There is no correct answer for every Rhino user. The defaults are more of a (one size doesn’t fit most), but they are the best compromises we can make given the feedback we get. As you well know, we do not take a cavalier view of any of these defaults. We argue both sides over and over and try to find a setting that will work for the most number of users.

I’ve turned ON CheckNewObjects on this new machine now…
-wim