- make a circle

- cover surface from that circle

you now have associativity !

blow away that circle and you get a warning that your associativity will be broken if you continue .. seems fair !

However, split the circle (segment at location) .. and you turn your circle into 2 arcs. In doing so you break the associativity

Yet .. NO dialog comes up to let you know my feature tree / history is at risk

Why ?

Am I beginning to understand why I often don't find the 'features' I expect to find in my model ?

(There must be many more examples of this .. as far as I can see, it represents a flaw)

Yes I agree...VC should report the associativity is at risk!

As you pointed out by splitting a curve currently removes all links from the surface :confused:. IMO There should be a warning AND the option to rebuild the geometry where possible ?

JL - I have come across that case .. resolve links can't be resolved .. I think this is wrong !

We are building foundations here for our models with holes like a swiss cheese

All of a sudden I realise why my history suddenly disappears

The very least we can do here Tim is to insert some mouse traps !

"If you do that - fine, but then you lose your history "

If our history system was the plumbing - you'd need to live in waders

What action are we going to take about the numerous situations where you unwittingly delete your object's history without any warning ?

My object's history should be 100% intact unless ..

1.) I AGREE to perform an action which will compromise it ..

2.) I CHOOSE to dump it myself

- make a square,
- extrude a solid (or lathe...)
- add a fillet between 2 lines of the square,
- Resolve links gets "on", but cannot action.

Repeated here as well. Working on a fix now....

Tim

Tim I must say I have to agree with Jol (and everyone else). I've kinda fallen out of hope with Punch software recently and have been gravitating back towards the darkside, (learning Rhino) because of silly glitches like these. I too have lost my history tree and have got so miffed, that I've booted into windows in order to reach deadlines.

It's a real shame because potentially Shark and ViaCAD do really have the potential of being viable alternatives to the big heavies. I can understand that this is some serious coding going on here, (I'm also presuming that most of it is C++ based and doesn't (like the darkside ones- not necessarily including Rhino) use the micro$oft .NET framework, making their life slightly easier, but locked into windows only?), so I'm really hoping that these issues have been addressed and fixed for SFXv6? :)

>>However, split the circle (segment at location) .. and you turn your circle >>into 2 arcs. In doing so you break the associativity

Jol,

Going over the tools in the trim palette next....

Tim

One more change related to the above. I beefed up the cover tool in the case of planar curves to automatically recognize cutouts. You no longer need to go to the 2D boolean tools. It also was "smartened" up to automatically recognize curve add/remove using the fillet/chamfer tools.


http://www.csi-concepts.com/Dem...ideos/improvedCovers.mov

Tim

Well done Tim !

.. I look forward to stress testing this stuff .. hehe

: )

Hi, Tim


Sorry the other question about this is if you apply the bend tool to an extrude profile and want to change say the corner radius of the profile does this new associativity update the bent part?


Thanks

Jason