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Alias for Inventor - how to manipulate a face

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stevec781
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Alias for Inventor - how to manipulate a face

I recently tried the Alias add on demo and I cant find a way to manipulate faces, just edges. 

 

Is there a way to get it to manuipulate faces or is it limited to only edges?  Ie keep the edges unchanged and pull some curvature into the middle of a face using a control grid?

 

Thanks

Steve

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Dennis_Jeffrey
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Here's a simple method. There are other ways to do this....

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtwmICdgebQ

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stevec781
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But that way is still restricted to moving only in the split plane.  I am loooking for something more like SW freeform or SE blue surf.  I would hope that an add on that costs extra would at least be able to do what the competitors can do as standard.

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mbenoy
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I would like to see that functionality added also.

As a side note, for now, although it wouldn't be very practical, you could split a face into multiple sections (a grid pattern) and then you could edit each segment, just as the previous video shows editing the one.

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