then its outset not inset 
Whatever you want to call it (InOutSet?) but it should be one command with the ability to let the user choose where it offsets with the use of his mouse position…
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… I see that you can already do something similar with “SpliPlanarFace” + extrude, but without keeping both operands.
Furthermore my approach would be faster IMHO especially in the first case (simple split object) wich is probably the vast majority of cases, at least for me…
Does Wirecut not do what you want?
https://docs.mcneel.com/rhino/7/help/en-us/index.htm#commands/wirecut.htm
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well almost… I have quite a history with this wish…
Since I do a lot of solid splitting in my projects, my goal is basically to have a command that would require only a minimal amount of mouse clicks.
In Wirecut for example you can specify in which direction the split should be executed, you can choose Cplane, X,Y,Z, normal … that means you have to have additional user input, or you try to macro what you want: (e.g.wirecut, l, pause, pause, pause, enter)
Since we are here basically talking about new Rhino features on the basis of subsurfaces, I think that might be a good place to talk about this, since we might be able to harvest the information about the cutting direction from the subsurfaces normal without any further user input.
I also think that this is actually a pretty basic functionality which should be implemented as a standard command. It should not be that the user has to tinker a macro for something like this.
Here is the link to a discussion we which started in 2017:
I already had a lot of help and pretty solid outcome, however I think this should be implemented into Rhino.
Example:
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yes, like I wrote, I am aware of this… now we also need split (keep both operands)
That’s what I have under my alias ‘wc’:
! _Wirecut _Pause _Pause _Direction=_CPlaneNormal _DeleteInput=_No _BothSides=_No _KeepAll=_Yes _Enter
and under ‘wcn’:
! _Wirecut _Pause _Pause _Direction=_NormalToCurve _DeleteInput=_No _BothSides=_No _KeepAll=_Yes _Enter
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I still wish that wirecut when used to cut ‘through all the way’ (what I do 99 % of the times I use Wirecut), that it worked exactly like trim with curve works: the side you click, is the side it’s gone.
Same for ‘keep-both’, it should work like split with curve does.
Simple is better.
G
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The above macros keep both… in the end I found it simply easier to split and keep all parts, then delete the part(s) I don’t want. Towards that end, you could add a SelLast to the macro and then Ctrl+Click on the part you want to keep and hit delete…
At 600+ replies, this thread has become too long to follow. So I’m closing it. If you have questions or comments on the Rhino 8 WIP, please begin a new thread.
Thanks,
– Dale
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