Wish: Add Boundary to Extrude

[Holo]

I think Boundary would be a great upgrade and time-saver for Extrude.

And to take it further: A “project to C-plane” option would be great too.
This would also be a super option for Hatch, giving us the ability to generate hatches directly from 3D curves.

Thanks.

[Helvetosaur]

@Holo

I think Boundary would be a great upgrade and time-saver for Extrude.

In theory, the “ToBoundary” option in ExtrudeCrv should do this. But I find it often fails (been this way since the beginning)… The ToBoundary option in ExtrudeSrf seems to work better in some cases.

@Holo

And to take it further: A “project to C-plane” option would be great too.

Yes, it might at that…

@Holo

This would also be a super option for Hatch, giving us the ability to generate hatches directly from 3D curves.

This should already work this way with the “boundary” option in Hatch…

–Mitch

[Holo]

@Helvetosaur

In theory, the “ToBoundary” option in ExtrudeCrv should do this. But I find it often fails (been this way since the beginning)… The ToBoundary option in ExtrudeSrf seems to work better in some cases.
–Mitch

The “To Boundary” option extrudes TO a surface, no matter what kind of shape that surface has, I would like a FROM C-plane option. Very similar in many ways, but far from the same

@Helvetosaur

This should already work this way with the “boundary” option in Hatch…

–Mitch

I had NO idea… Nice… and it even works in V4.

[Helvetosaur]

@Holo

The “To Boundary” option extrudes TO a surface, no matter what kind of shape that surface has, I would like a FROM C-plane option. Very similar in many ways, but far from the same

OK, it wasn’t clear from your request… So you want to flatten/project 3D curves to the CPlane and then extrude those?

–Mitch

[Holo]

Yes, or to be spesific:
I would like for the built in tool to include that, either from C-plane, or from the curve-plane…

I can easily make a script that does this, I just think it would be nice to have it in the tool.