Control Point Edit

[badtrim]

After accepting the default numbers in the planing hull assistant (just a test), and adding sections, when I turn on control points and select all surfaces for editing, only the deck surface control points are on. If I explode the hull into it's component surfaces and then turn on control points it all seems to work... any ideas as to why this may be happening?

BT

[lleibman]

Currently, Rhino does not allow control point editing of polysurfaces. When creating the planing hull, the chine discontinuity causes Rhino to interpret the hull as a polysurface (which you must explode before editing). I understand that Rhino 5 may allow editing of surfaces with internal slope discontinuities.

Thanks for your input.

LL

[Athlon64M]

Do you have to put it back together to get many of the functions to work? (Create Lines Drawing button shows a layout size box, but doesn't create a Lines Drawing) Define Sections also didn't do anything while the hull was exploded.

Also Rhino wasn't able to find "viewport named" "bodyplan" & "Profile" when I clicked on those buttons.

I've been spending some time playing around and would like to learn more.

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[lleibman]

Many of the issues associated with the Planing Hull Assistant will be addressed in the next release. Specifically, we have modified this assistant so that the resulting hull geometry is a single surface and not a polysurface. Therefore, it will not require exploding the polysurface (in fact it won't be possible to explode the single surface) before control point editing. This will also address some of the issues related to sections (and as a result lines drawings). Orca keeps track of the surfaces to which Orca3D sections are associated. When you explode a polysurface, the resulting single surfaces are "new" and the previously defined Orca sections are no longer associated with them. Since you won't have to explode a polysurface for the planing hull assistant in the next release this will no longer be an issue.

In the meantime, in WIP 3 and earlier you will need to explode the polysurface before control point editing AND before defining sections. Then the sections should show up in the lines drawing.

LL