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Old 4th September 2005, 07:27 PM   #1
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Default Extrude along path

I'd love to see an "extrude along path" feature in AC3D.

It would basically work like this:

Figure 1: a Disk and a Line


Defining the Line as our "path", we could extrude the Disk and get this:

Figure 2: extruded Disk, subdivided in 3d view.


This exercise was done by hand --- I started on a plugin to do just this, but I'm having problems getting the rotations of each extruded edge right, so have abandoned it for a while. Thought it would be a nice-to-have in the app at any rate...

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Old 4th September 2005, 09:08 PM   #2
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Mmm, roller-coaster track, cockpit framework, etc. I could really use that to save hours of fiddly work.

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Old 30th September 2005, 05:09 PM   #3
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That would be fantastic!!!
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Old 3rd October 2005, 11:48 AM   #4
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I third that one!!! Please, please!!!
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Old 5th October 2005, 12:21 PM   #5
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Yes - it will be in the next release...
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Old 5th October 2005, 10:36 PM   #6
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Great news!
Thanks Andy. Guess it'd be cheeky to ask for a hint on when?
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Old 6th October 2005, 01:56 AM   #7
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It will go into alpha testing soon.

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Old 10th October 2005, 08:35 PM   #8
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Andy,
Thanks great news.
Fingers crossed for saveable background files.
This week I've had the use of a much more expensive software and I've noticed how much time it saves and how much more productive it is. I can fit in half an hour here n there without wasting that time positioning and scaling three backgrounds over n over.
AC3D is crying out for it and so am I.
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