I have been constantly working on Make2d for the Rhino 6.0 WIP and believe we have made great advances from V5 and the product is ready for prime time.
Lately I have worked to improve the performance both in the large single polysurface case and the case of many objects. Most of this involved spreading the workload over multiple threads. I have also tweaked the progress reporting feedback that the command offers so the progress bar isn’t stuck at 0% or 99% as often as before.
I know there are features that people would like to have that have not been added. I think the top of this list is getting a closed curve from the intersection with clipping planes. These closed curves can then optionally make occluding geometry so cut objects appear capped in Make2D. Also the 2D-closed regions could be made hatched.
However, first I want to know what the problems are with the existing features. So please give it a try and let me know.
Hi Francis - did you get a message on startup about the Commands plug-in not loading, or did you just discover this? Have you installed and run the V6/WIP successfully in the past?
I have just tested the new make2D command. You can see the results in the provided screenshots below.
Almost no interior meshface edges come through. Any idea why?
Anyway I was wondering if there is a way to implement the maked2d function with the printing function?
I imagine this option to replace or add to the vector printing option which I find a little disappointing. As a third option this vector overlay, blended with the regular bitmap printing function, could produce a result with nice, clean and crisp vectors without antialiasing. That would be a great feature for Rhino 6.
Do you think this is possible to implement?
Try Unweld with angle tolerance=0 on the mesh before running Make2D.
Make2D for meshes will draw boundary edges, non-manifold edges, silhouettes, non-weld edges and creased edges. So a nice smooth mesh will basically draw like a smooth surface.
