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@prmod3d, thank you, glad the loft is useful already. Both are possible, and I'll build them:
Both stay exact bodies, so edges can still be filleted and STEP keeps them. A transition that bends along a curved path, like a pipe elbow, is a different tool (a sweep along a path), so that is not part of this. |
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@prmod3d Twist and tilt are built and come with the next update. A full 90° does not work with the way the loft is built. It stacks its sections straight up and tilts each one by its share of the angle. Towards 90° the side the top leans to gets squeezed until the wall folds over itself, and the top opening would still sit straight above the bottom instead of out to the side as in a duct bend. So I'll keep the limit at 45°. A real bend needs a sweep along a path, and that is not planned for now. I'm really glad you enjoy layerling and keep coming up with ideas, please don't stop! I'd just like to keep in mind what layerling is meant to be: an easy CAD tool in the spirit of Tinkercad. Not every wish is easy to build, and I have to weigh what helps many users against what helps only a few. There is a lot more on my to-do list that many more people are waiting for. I've built quite a few of your wishes over the last days. Even with AI help, every feature still takes a lot of time and costs real money. layerling is still a private project of mine in my spare time, with no company and no big budget behind it. So I hope you understand that I have to choose carefully what comes next. |
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Makes sense. I think in my mind I imagined the tilted surface also moving further to one side, but of course it really can only hinge on one edge and your explanation of the walls folding over themselves makes perfect sense. I hope that most of my suggestions have been enhancements that further the development of the project, and have been to the benefit of most current and future users! I also hope my involvement is encouraging others to do so as well -- especially when they observe active engagement brings prompt and positive results. Go team! I will be actively promoting Layerling (is it actually spelled all lowercase? That hurts my semi-OCD brain!) and modest financial support will come in time -- likely after the 18th of the month for budgetary reasons. |
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All lowercase is correct - it's a small solution :) |
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Tested and everything works great. With all those option combinations it's possible to create some very interesting shapes! Also, the new Loft shape with all the features manages to quickly produce shapes that I've seen various Tinkercad content creators twist themselves into a mess trying to replicate with complex standard shape combinations. These are the sorts of differences that will make layerling an easy "sell" to all experienced Tinkercad users. |
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Was not sure if my comment about this would be seen in an unrelated thread, so thought I'd create a more relevant one and post it again:
Wow, wow, WOW! Never thought I'd ever see a Loft feature in a Tinkercad-level design app. Layerling is truly rising above all the expectations I had when I went searching for a Tinkercad alternative/replacement a short week ago!
Am constantly amazed at what Stefan is able to integrate into this app... so I wonder if it's possible to enhance the Loft feature by post-rotation (or pre-setting) the top and bottom faces on the Z-axis in order to create a curved and/or angled loft section mating the two?
Pushing the envelope even further, is dual-face rotation possible (on the Z and X/Y axis) to enable the creation of some truly amazing results only available in premium CAD packages?
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