Thanks, that looks like the kind of thing I'm after. Will check it out.

Anyone know of a tool that will let me distort an object in a non-linear way? For instance, I'd like to be able to take something like a straight-sided cylinder and turn it into bulging barrel shape. I've done some looking but haven't seen anything -- suggestions welcome!

@didier bur said:

Do you have set any angle snapping ?

I did, but the results are the same after I turned off angle snapping.

Another observation:

I select "random rotate", but when I look at the results it's clear that only 6 specific rotation angles are being used...actually more like 3 pairs of angles, 120 degrees apart, with the items in each pair being 8 degrees apart. Is this expected?

Thanks, Chris.

I've just installed this (SU 7.1, WinXP), and I have a question about the spray pressure parameter. In the user guide it says that the # of components dropped is calculated as:

[area of surface]/[average area of component(s)]*[spray pressure]

In my case, the surface is a 10x10 square, and the component is a 1x1 square -- so the surface is 100 times the component area. If I select a spray pressure of 10%, I would expect 10 components to be dropped, but what I get is 100 components. Basically this calculation seems to be off by a factor of 10: if I ask for 100% pressure, then 1000 components get dropped, and so on.

Am I missing something? I ask because for my model I really need lower densities; i.e. in line with the calculation described in the guide.

Thanks,

Chris.