Strokes in Revolve Sketch

[hlmodtech]

I use it for some pretty slick stuff in Tink. Would be nice to have it arrive here, too. Thanks for everything!

revolve.stroke.mp4

[henmedia]

@hlmodtech, thank you for the video; now I see what you do. I added it: a revolve sketch has the Stroke button again. Draw the wall as one open line to the left of the axis, tick the stroke and set the width, and the revolve turns that band into a thin wall, like your vase. What reaches across the axis is cut off at it. The body keeps the drawn line, so Edit sketch goes on from there. It comes with the next release.

[henmedia]

@hlmodtech, the Stroke button is back in the revolve sketch in 1.74.0: draw the wall as one open line left of the axis, tick the stroke and set the width. Reload the page to get it; the installed app needs a restart. Tell me if your vase comes out as you want.

[djelliott19]

I see the key updates in sketch since 1.78.0, and am able to use them to create new lines. But would it be possible to implement them as in tinkercad to modify existing lines/points as well? For example, rather than click-hold-drag to draw bez curves, I would typically just draw straight lines to rough out the shape, then go select lines and hit 2 to change them to a curve. The function is there, with the submenu to change from curve / straight line (or smooth curve / corner for points), but hotkeys would make it much more efficient when doing significant edits to the sketch.

[henmedia]

@djelliott19 thank you, that makes sense, and it is the same way I would work. With the Select tool, when lines or points are selected, 1 now makes the lines straight and the points corners, 2 turns the lines into curves, and 3 makes the points smooth. With nothing selected the keys still pick the drawing tool as before. The keys are also shown in the tooltips of the buttons.

[henmedia]

@djelliott19 it is in 1.103.1: with the Select tool and lines or points selected, key 1 makes lines straight and points corners, 2 makes lines curves and 3 makes points smooth, all selected ones at once. With nothing selected the keys pick the drawing tool as before.

[djelliott19]

As usual, thanks for the quick response.

I'm on 1.103.1 now, and I see with line segment selected 1 and 2 will toggle the segment straight or curved. However, that doesn't seem to be working fully with a point selected. If I select a point that is curved now, and hit 1, it makes both sides straight lines - but if it is straight lines, hitting 2 or 3 look are putting me into the mode to draw new segments instead of affecting the selected point (they highlight the different tools in the DRAW box upper left).

As a related note, if I select 2 adjacent straight segments (sharing a point in the middle) and hit 2 - they turn into curves, but the point is a corner. is it possible for it to default to 'smooth curve' for that point instead of 'corner'? Similarly, I've noticed that using the submenu for the point - if it is already a corner (2 handles) and I select smooth curve, it does nothing - I need to click on corner then smooth curve and it changes to one two-sided handle.

[henmedia]

@djelliott19 thank you for the exact description. To say what happens today: with a point selected, 1 makes it a corner and 3 makes it smooth, but 2 works on lines only, so with only a point selected it picks the drawing tool. That is why you land in the Draw box with 2. For 3 I do not see that yet, so I would like to reproduce it. When you select a point between two straight lines and press 3, does it always go to drawing, or only with some selections (one point, several points, points and lines together)? And is the point part of a closed outline or the end of an open line?

About the other two: I can see that a point between two lines you just curved should come out smooth rather than as a corner, and that "Smooth curve" in the point's menu should work on a corner at once. Which version are you on for the menu, still 1.103.1?

[djelliott19]

I am now on v1.106.0, and see that what you said above is correct 1 & 2 work for swapping segments to straight or curve - 1 & 3 do the same for points. I may have missed the 3 key earlier when testing. I also see that both work multiple selected points or segments, connected or not.

I also see that points toggled to curves look to be coming out as smooth by default and not corners. I'm not sure if I missed this in an update today, but it is working as I would expect.

[henmedia]

@djelliott19 thank you for checking it again, good to hear the keys work as they should. The last point from my reply is fixed too: when a point already has two separate handles, Smooth (in the point's menu or with 3) now lines them up at once, each keeping its length, without the detour through Corner. It will be in the next release.

[henmedia]

@djelliott19 it's in 1.107.0: Smooth (point menu or key 3) on a point with two separate handles now lines them up at once, each keeping its length.