Clipping with polygon list

[tsch_kl]

It would be really a cool feature if it would be possible to define (after selecting the polyline) a vector in which the polyline will be extruded but i understand, that is not easy to implement....

[daniel]

To generate a mesh?

[tsch_kl]

Each point lying on a polyline gets a vector orthogonal to the connection of the next point. Along this vector and a definable value, a volume is extruded from the polyline.

Here of course the question arises, who is the "next" point since a point of a polyline always has 2 "neighbors". Unfortunately, I do not have the answer yet...

So one could, by means of a polyline and another value, filter the point cloud and the view setting would not have to be considered.

[daniel]

Hum, still not sure to understand, especially in which 'dimension' to shift the vertices (because to create a 'volume', you simply need to move the vertices orthogonally to the polyline 'plane', while if you shift the vertices inside this plane, then you end-up with another polyline, not a volume?) ... And also not sure to understand what the goal is.