Inset - Additional options

[David53 (David)]

Inset is a fantastically helpful tool, and I am using it a lot. I may have asked something like this in the past.

However, one thing that really bugs me is that I think there should be more direct options:

Inset distance <X> (… OnlyCurves=Yes/No NewSurface=Yes/No)

OnlyCurves should merely act the same as offsetting all of the curves and leaving the surface intact.

NewSurface should act to create an entirely new surface as an inset, which can then be used easily for panelling or such; again leaving the original surface unmodified.

Perhaps someone has one of those magical ways of doing this without resorting to Enhancement route.

Thanks!

[Joshua_Kennedy]

@David53

OnlyCurves should merely act the same as offsetting all of the curves and leaving the surface intact.

If you set the Split option to No it should do exactly this.

@David53

NewSurface should act to create an entirely new surface as an inset, which can then be used easily for panelling or such; again leaving the original surface unmodified.

I might be misunderstanding but if the Split option is Yes, there is a JoinOutputs option. If you set that to No the inset face is a separate object.

[David53 (David)]

Thanks. I am not surer why, but on early versions of R8, I could never get these effects; it always either split the surface, or I had no curve. However, they seem to work exactly as intended now.