the problem with that idea is thickness.  how will moray know what to
make it?  and should the thickness be even or irregular?  besides, the
need for purely hollow objects just doesn't come up often enough for
lutz to spend time adding a feature like that.  however, he has made a
plugin sdk available, and if you would like to, you can make such a
plugin yourself.  as for myself i don't mind the 6 or 8 clicks it takes
to make a hollow object.

Chuck Roberts wrote:
> 
> Not really. Moray would just do the few steps for me.
> 1. Create shape. (shape 1)
> 2. Create cutout of shape which is slightly smaller. (shape 2)
> 3. Make a difference group, subtract cutout from shape 1.
> 
> Ken wrote:
> >
> > Chuck Roberts wrote:
> > >
> > > Request for Enhancement
> > >
> > > I would like to be able to make real hollow objects. I know you
> > > can specify an object to be "hollow" but you can't put a light
> > > inside it and have it shine through windows you have cut out of
> > > the object.
> > >
> > > A real hollow object, like a cube, would be differenced with a
> > > cube slightly smaller than itself (say 1% smaller in each
> > > direction).
> >
> > You are now requesting a feature change/addition that would have
> > to be implemented in POV-Ray itself which has nothing to do with
> > the functionality of Moray.
> >
> > http://www.students.tut.fi/~warp/povVFAQ/languageVFAQ.html#hollowobjects
> >
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> 
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