Intuitive/Fast Surface Rebuild

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Problem- It is hard to tell U and V directions. And to be honest most designers dont care. Few concepts:

  1. When in the RebuildSrf command- Pick isocurve or edge of surface you want to rebuild and the corresponding direction is highlighted and user can input the required degree
  2. When in the RebuildSrf command- Pick U or V by picking the corresponding isocurve or edge of the surface and use the mouse scroll to increase or decrease the degree.
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It could look something like this- although imagine that the cursor was at an edge or isocurve.

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Hi Thomas- are you thinking there would be a dialog or command line input as well for numeric input? Or inputs available right ‘on’ the curve or surface? Or?

Thanks,

-Pascal

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Currently Rebuild Srf has a dialog box. Do not get rid of this. This proposal adds a visual aspect to the definition process ie- you click on the U or V isoparm on screen and use the mouse roll to increase or decrease resolution ( you can already use the mouse roll to increase and decrease the numeric input in the respective field. As you roll the U and V point count up and down on screen the numeric fields update accordingly.

Re: Degree- Perhaps degree can be edited by holding down the scroll wheel and going up and down.

This kind of edit can be extremely fast and fluid- and allow you to move quickly from curve to extrude to point edited surface with minimal mouse movement.