IntersectSelf Help Misleading

[davidcockey]

Help for IntersectSelf says self-intersections are marked with points. The output is a line or curve, not a point, if the self-intersection is a line or curve. Help should be updated so users are not mislead into looking only for points as output from IntersectSelf.

IntersectSelf | Rhino 3-D modeling

[ryan.odom (Ryan M. Odom)]

Please see my latest post here. In V7 _IntersectSelf returns a point as wanted and expected on the same curve. I strongly feel this is a V8 regression with the potential for harm.

IntersectSelf Unexpected Line added

Thanks @davidcockey I opened this curve in V7 and it drops a point as expected. This certainly feels like a regression to me. The V7/V8 documentation indicates it should be a point object and says nothing about curves. Imagine this: I’m processing many lines and 100 of them come back as self intersecting. I run _IntersectSelf and it marks 89 of them with a point. I have to know that some of these self interactions are marked with a line and then I have go go find them. I’m lucky today that I’m …

[KelvinC (Kelvin Cheng)]

@davidcockey

Topic updated now, thanks.

IntersectSelf | Rhino 3-D modeling