@gaieus said:
I could imagine a DC "stretching" in a certain direction then you could explode it and use drop.rb to get all the nested pieces onto the ground. Would that be "enough"? Note that it couldn't be modified afterwards so this is a final (and non reversible, destructive) way.
I think in this situation the drop.rb plugin could be used in a non destructive way. Instead of exploding the DC, it could just be edited by double-clicking on it. I threw together a test file and screen capture. Kevin, I would be curious if this would be a reasonable solution.
Scale the DC in the attached skp, then edit it, then apply the drop.rb plugin (also attached just in case you don't have it).
Sorry, forgot to record mouse cursor in screen capture.
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*edit
I should add that this only really works as long as the z attribute is not formula derived (black)
Regards,
Matt Chambers
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