Dynamic Extend

[setz]

Wouldn't it be great to have an option added to the Extend Tool to allow faces to be interactively pulled with the distance field live for numerical input and have it utilize the CMD key toggle for Static/To Face/Dynamic options?

Or maybe just add a new tool that would have this utility.

[ZTEK]

+1, great!... I prefer to toggle with the ALT key ; )

[AsOne]

How is this different than the Reshape tool?

[setz]

Envision Extending the bottom of a cone dynamically vs Reshaping it.  Reshaping makes it no longer a cone.

[AsOne]

Got it. 

+1

[setz]

ADS is getting close and teasing us...Segments first, than possibly faces next?   Woohooo!

 

From the 9.4.0 notes:

[ZTEK]

+1 🙏🏻😜

Edited May 14, 2020 by ZTEK

[Paulji]

Setz, Excellent Idea!

[Simbio3D]

For me, the way extend tool was working prior version 6 was quite good, apart from some crash due to bad mesh, mostly because during boolean operation there was left duplicate points

and collinear segments.

Today after upgrade to version 9.1 I find it much more difficult to use it.

You can't really perform in an optimal way the extend tool in wireframe mode, which is fundamental, because where in shade view you can easily select a face and extend to another but you can't see the full geometry like in wireframe.

there is not much use by working in shaded as mention you can't work in full geometry.

I would like to understand why user Setz is talking about 9.4 is it a beta version? do we have the right to test it?

 

 

[setz]

My lazy typing fingers, that was likely V9.0.4.