The MultiPatch welds several Spline Patches to one smooth surface and rounds outer edges with an editable profile.

The new SplineCage object creates and manages all connections between the splines of a cage and generates all desired surfaces with just one mouse click.

SplineCage

The main new feature of version 3.0 is the new SplineCage object. Once again, it has become much faster and easier to generate patch objects. In patch modeling, all splines defining the object to be modeled, make the spline cage. The new object works as a generator and creates stable connections at the intersections of all splines of the cage. These connection points can be moved and are retained even when editing the single splines.

The preview options displays all the surface, that can be generated from the cage. With a click, real patch objects are created, optionally subordinated to a MultiPatch object.

Tri-Patch from quadrangles

There are some reasons to avoid triangles in modeling. Until now Tri-patches were always created from triangles. Optionally, Tri-patches can now be generated from quadrangles, if the number of subdivisions is even.

MultiPatch symmetry

The MultiPatch object has been enhanced by a symmetry option. The benefit in comparison to the symmetry object is that the symmetry is applied before generating the outer edge profiles. Thus, there are no problems with edge profiles at the mirror plane.

New parameter for edge profile

The U profile of the outer edges has been enhanced by the parameter “Length”. It is used to extend the inner part of the “U”.

Integrated help system

The context sensitive help is now available via the plug-ins menu und is displayed in a window within Cinema 4D.