Hi Rajaa,
This is the first I’ve seen of this post. Is this the update for section tools for V6?
Trying it now so not many comments.
One thing and this may have to do with the gumball but if a section is created that is not perpendicular to the cplane lets say you slice a box at 20 degrees, one minor flaw is that the gumball with the section does not move according to the sections orientation. I know how to doctor it but this behavior should become standard ie the gumball should move along the normal of the clipping plane not the cplane, normal extrude suffers from this as well.
Since this is a wip these commands should be exposed with autocomplete by now.
Thanks for these new tools, I hope this gets some attention see my post will section tools and clipping planes ever meet?
RM
I know of the setcplane option you have but do we really need to invoke that? Why not just have the gumball follow the normal, 9 times out of 10 that’s what the user wants the cplane should not have to be reset to move the clipping plane in these simple cases.
RM
Hear, Hear! I think 10 out of 10. Can’t think of any reason I’d want anything else. I might want to rotate it around an axis perpendicular to the normal, but for pete’s sake, it’s clipping plane. It moves back and forth along it’s normal. It should be constrained to do that to make my life less complicated.
Hi Roland - Setting Gumball alignment to Object should get you the behavior you’re after, if I understand. Also, if points are on for a clipping plane, tugging on the middle point of the normal line locks to the normal direction.
Thanks Pascal but I think it would be nicer more efficient and transparent to not have to do all that you mention. As I said 9 times out of 10 you just want to move it along it’s current alignment, seems to me the guy who is working on this is really hosing the customers by making them work the way he wants it to work with all these endless caveats to every command.
RM
Hi Pascal,
I see the gumball now actually sticks to the object alignment instead of defaulting to cplane when it is turned off thank god.
This is why you can’t let commands linger and not fix them until builds latter, I’ll give up using commands if they don’t work I simply don’t have time. I gave up using the gumball because of the way it acted in V5 this is how it should work. Thanks for the tune up.
RM
