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      otb designworks
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      That would be quite useful, for me.

      Now, how about a plug-in that cuts a model up into beautifully perfect quads? I'd pay cold hard cash for that one, too.

      Thanks TIG!

      Cheers, Chuck

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      6 core nMP, 32 gig RAM, (2) D700 GPU's, dual monitors

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        TIG Moderator
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        Here's v1.8 http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=218691#p218691

        Triangulation is now an option near the end - Answer Yes to do it... ๐Ÿค“

        TIG

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          driven
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          TIG,
          slight problem, when choosing Yes to continue after an 'initial health check' pass, it zapps everything even unselected groups.... both on badly grouped and clean booled groups, I'll do some more and send pics.

          I'll see if it still happening in 1.8

          learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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            TIG Moderator
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            @driven said:

            TIG,
            slight problem, when choosing Yes to continue after an 'initial health check' pass, it zapps everything even unselected groups.... both on badly grouped and clean booled groups, I'll do some more and send pics.
            I'll see if it still happening in 1.8

            Odd - I can't get it to error at all... ๐Ÿ˜• Please 'feedback'.............

            TIG

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              driven
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              @tig said:

              Odd - I can't get it to error at all... :? Please 'feedback'.............

              been trying to up load pics, site is slow, pics to follow

              it's on both machines, 1.7 and 1.8

              3 groups from Draw Shapes Menu, grouped, manifold_1.7and8, both give a pass
              [attachment=0:19dcyp32]<!-- ia0 -->3 groups inside group_1.jpg<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:19dcyp32]
              Yes to continue....zapppp

              Same 3 groups, exploded then regrouped is running as predicted on other mac at the moment, this site is slow from this machine....

              learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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                driven
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                the first and last zap the drawing clean, i.e. everything goes

                learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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                  driven
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                  this should upload.jpg
                  something screwy going on with uploads, sorry it makes thing disjointed

                  learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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                    TIG Moderator
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                    I get no problems... but can you PM me that model asap, so that I have exactly the same starting point... ๐Ÿ˜•

                    The 'no problems found' report is on any geometry that hasn't already be relegated to 'red'... looks like everything is removed BEFORE we do the health check - it's not a group inside a group is it ?

                    TIG

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                      driven
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                      TIG,

                      they were groups inside a group, and got a pass, (they are all manifold) it only zaps them if you say YES,
                      the same thing happened after I BoolTool'd all 3 groups into 1 group, initial pass (as it should), but zapped if you choose YES, I only got the RED on that one drawing, I'll re run the first set-up and post the if no red is shown again.

                      I have just set a Bool'd group run that Passed initial and didn't blitz the drawing when I hit YES

                      It's on a pair of torus + geodasic sphere bool group, and it is running.

                      original set ungrouped, but not booled

                      and others work so smoothly

                      learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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                        TIG Moderator
                        last edited by

                        Here's v1.9 http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=218691#p218691

                        It now traps for 'No Geometry' inside the Group... ๐Ÿค“

                        TIG

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                          driven
                          last edited by

                          NO Zapping with 1.9... is it possible for the health check to report 'NO geometry to Check because the selection contains sub-groups'?

                          I'll try some other breakers I've been working on...

                          cheers john

                          learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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                            driven
                            last edited by

                            TIG,
                            I've got a couple of test on the go, I'll report on them when they're cooked.

                            some additional ?'s

                            which should be faster for manifold, simply continuing after fail or a manual repair than re-test continue

                            would it be possible to choose bothquad's and tri's as two separate groups, if you have two different post destinations for the object?

                            or would EraseCoplanar on a copy of a Tri'd group give identical mesh results?

                            learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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                              driven
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                              TIG- found the problem with the Bool'd groups -BT can create a group inside a group when bool-ing more than two groups, which I should have spotted in Outliner.

                              When manifold highlighted RED and said 'NO' I simply exploded the extra group and answered my earlier ?, it was much faster on the bool'd group and I assume would be the similar on a manually repaired group.

                              Note for users: The manual option also gives more control over the mesh shape at the torus/box intersection.

                              Basically TIG you've done a fantastic job on this, thank you

                              I'm convinced you, Chuck, and I won't be the only end-user's for this, it has soo many uses.

                              for now I'll keep putting up images that help or hinder, and get back to some bent text testing....

                              do you think it's ready for a wider audience yet, I'm planing on trying to do a tutorial when your happy?
                              un-intersected single groupinitial test picked up the buried group and then 'presto'

                              ADD: it's what I thought re: tri/quads, just thought I'd ask

                              learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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                                TIG Moderator
                                last edited by

                                @driven said:

                                TIG,
                                I've got a couple of test on the go, I'll report on them when they're cooked.
                                some additional ?'s
                                which should be faster for manifold, simply continuing after fail or a manual repair than re-test continue
                                would it be possible to choose bothquad's and tri's as two separate groups, if you have two different post destinations for the object?
                                or would EraseCoplanar on a copy of a Tri'd group give identical mesh results?

                                Manual fix versus Auto-fix depends on what needs fixing - making it right in the first place is the best bet ๐Ÿ˜‰
                                If you choose NOT to triangulate but then want a triangulated version then copy it and simply select all faces and run my [+tt's] tool triangulate_faces and you'll have the same result - uses the same code... ๐Ÿค“

                                TIG

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                                  driven
                                  last edited by

                                  Even Likes Curves, but they will slow it down.

                                  seems a lot quicker than before on this sort of thing

                                  learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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                                  • TIGT Online
                                    TIG Moderator
                                    last edited by

                                    Here's v2.0 http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=218691#p218691

                                    Glitch in health-check if very small edges in faces fixed...

                                    TIG

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                                      thomthom
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                                      v2 ? is this a major or minor update?

                                      Thomas Thomassen โ€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                                        TIG Moderator
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                                        @thomthom said:

                                        v2 ? is this a major or minor update?

                                        The tweaks were relatively minor - BUT as I am unlikely to make many more changes in the short-term I thought I'd mark it with '2.0'... ๐Ÿ˜‰

                                        TIG

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                                          pilou
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                                          I have missed this new true gem! ๐Ÿ˜ณ

                                          Frenchy Pilou
                                          Is beautiful that please without concept!
                                          My Little site :)

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                                            pilou
                                            last edited by

                                            When I use Manifold I obtain that ok
                                            But When I kill or move the group red repair
                                            I have the original copy with killed internal faces Yes ok โ˜€ , but always segments on the faces! ๐Ÿ˜ฎ
                                            Does it normal? A simple box with 6 faces must be result ? No clean selection?
                                            bug.png

                                            Frenchy Pilou
                                            Is beautiful that please without concept!
                                            My Little site :)

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