Hello,
I would like to suggest a subtle improvement for the Edge continuity tool that would make easier to refine the surfaces.
When you are modifying the control points of a surface with the Curvature graph activated, the curve hair changes in real time, which is very convenient .
In the other hand the Edge continuity analysis do not do that, and can be quite annoying to have to do several attempts and undo to find the right position of each control point to acheive whatever you need.
My question is if is possible to make Edge continuity tool (maybe in Rhino 8WIP) to be real-time analisis when you are moving the control points.That would make things easier and less time-consuming for me and I hope for many of other users.
Hi Pascal,
There is the same issue, related to this thread, when Edge continuity tool is in use and Match surface is running. You can not see in real time if the desired result of the analysis is whether achieved or not until you close the Match surface tool.
It is very annoying because when is not achieved you have to undo and re-run the tool for every attempt.
Hi Jordi - Yep, all of these ‘fweedback’ tools should be integrated better - I’ll add this to tjhe pile, I do not know what the perospects are for a fix. RH-78282 EdgeContinuity: show MatchSrf results
Hi @dale I adress to you cause Pascal is no longer active, and I would like to know what is the status of this thread.
I think it would be very convenient to solve this out in order to make adjustements quicker.
Jordi
This two links Pascal created (above) in relation with this thread has nothing to do with the globaledgecontinuity tool cause, as far as I remember, with G.E.C you can not update the analysis in real time neither with matchsurf nor move UVN active, which is what I would like to see implemented.
Jordi.
@jordi.rovira GEC (and EdgeContinuity) should work with MoveUVN. It won’t work with geometry that doesn’t yet exist in the document, so MatchSrf won’t update the result while the MatchSrf command is active.
Good day Gijs,
I checked with GEC and EdgeContinuity and I didn’t see any real-time updating during the modification of the control points( RH-70934), it just updates once I drop the mouse button, so I have to undo every move I don’t achieve G1 specification, then keep guessing by doing new clicks until I get it…which is quite annoying.
With a real-time updating analysis just moving around the CV’s while cheking the comb you could spot on the specs in one mouse click.
Also regarding to match surf matter(RH-78282) checking two surfaces already selected from the GEC, while I am doing the match surf, nothing happens to the analysis, so I have to accept and close matchsurf tool and see the result , if not convinced, undo and try another setting of the matchsurf tool, accept and so on…
My apologies cause my English could not be good enough to explain certain technical things, by if needed I could post a demo from other CAD programs I use to show you more clearly.
Jordi.
I think I did not explain it very well. When you are in the process of modifying a surface, whether that is dragging a control point or previewing a MatchSrf, the adjusted surfaces are not yet in the document. Once you release the mouse (in case of dragging) or commit the MatchSrf by pressing OK, the surfaces get replaced with their modified versions. From that moment on, both EdgeContinuity as well as GEC can show the result of the modification.
I’m not saying this couldn’t be changed in the future, but currently that is the limitation you’ll have to work with.
I typically use nudging and/or small UVN increments to fine tune surfaces while I have the GEC dialog active.
@jordi.rovira I don’t really know what is needed to make this work, I’ll discuss this internally.
We currently only do this real time analysis for curves (Curvaturegraph) and for analysis modes that use the analysis render mesh (Zebra, Draftangle, Curvature, Emap).
