Essential tools for sculpting:

[jeffwaldosand]

At present Fusion 360 SCULPT is constrained by its tools.  As a result the models that are being produced tend to look like balloon art rather than the sophisticated forms the market demands.  The solution resides in the quick intuitive and simple movement of points, lines and surface patches.  So what is meant by “simple movement”?  At present we can move scale and slide geometry but many transform moves are not possible.    I need to be able to move any selected geometry in any direction or to any spot desired.  I need a transform tool that allows me to SEPARATLY invoke the movement of point lines and surface patches in the following directions:

Orthogonal World space.   Like the current tool move or scale along XYZ axis in model world space. 

Where you move to is also selectable.  For instance you hit a hot key to SNAP to

• Grid
• Other geometry
• Construction planes

Orthogonal Local space.   Like the current tool move or scale along XYZ axis construction plane Local space

Orthogonal normal to Screen View.  Again like the current tools but XYZ are normal to the particular view at the screen at the moment.

Transform along surface AKA Slide.  Need a hot key invoked transform that give the choice of movement in:

• U or V in up or down directions
• Scale from a set-able point.  This might be the basis for a Falloff function where transforms are selected from a choice of concentric rings around the aforementioned set-able point.  Depending on which ring you selected and at what ”clocked”  point would determine the falloff effect.  
• Free form movement along surface in the direction of the mouse drag

Perpendicular to surface.  So again the same tool moves points, lines or surface patches perpendicular to the normal surface.  Note that this is kind of like the bevel tool but without adding geometry.  It would be nice if adding geometry (like bevel) could be a choice (hot key) when this tool is being used.

Got to get back to work so more later.  

[schneik-adsk]

Check out the progress on falloff editing. Planned for September.

[jeffwaldosand]

Wow! You guys are on it!



At the risk of sounding ungrateful, I offer the following for your
consideration:



Falloff like all things related to transformation tools are essentially the
sculptor's fingers moving the clay. As such they are used all the time to
quickly arrive at the desired effect or to iterate on the path to the
desired effect. Tools that are used all the time need higher priority in
terms of menu accessibility. I presume that you understand the benefit of
transform tools being instantly accessed as this paradigm is established in
the current edit form tool where the transforms rotate and scale are all at
hand. By the way if you do not offer it already a hot key would be nice
there too) It's very important to have the tools handy with the minimum
keystroke / mouse effort, but we still need a complete set of tools.
Clearly Falloff is part of this complete set of edit form tools. I'd love
to see falloff invoked by hitting say the F key in combination with any of
the choices in the edit form. Hitting the F key might show concentric
colored circles around the selected geometry. Depending on which circle you
pointed your cursor at would invoke the scale of the fall off. Effectively
the same thing as your slider bar. The hot key in combination with edit
form tool might apply to all types of transforms for instance S for slide N
for move normal to screen. Having the slide bar as you do now is still
important. In my ideal world, there is always a dialog box available
offering all possible changes to the geometry. When you are doing transforms
the transformation choices are available. Dig deeper and other choices
like Position in 3D space, parameterization color etc. are available to
edit numerically or with slide bars.





JEFF SAND
Senior Design Officer

BRD MOTORCYCLE

1398 Bryant Street Suite B

San Francisco, CA 94103-4843

415 845 7639

www.faster-faster.com

[schneik-adsk]

We have added many hot keys to the edit form Dialog.cPLease take a look at the improvments in fall off and let us know what we can improve.