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    • mitcorbM Offline
      mitcorb
      last edited by

      Man, I've been wanting this like forever. And, based on your examples, it would not seem to be hard to do. But, in the case of your illustrations, which are very regular and isolated in the model space, what I do is navigate to a position where I can do a selection box around one of the loops as you show.

      I suggested this in a post about a year ago, and I believe it was deemed too complicated, or required hacking the core program, or whatever. As you may know, other programs such as Blender, Maya have this capability. But these programs are based on a different modeling philosophy. Whereas, SU is a surface modeler, these others are solid, or box modelers and they treat vertexes as operable entities, meaning you can copy, move, highlight, extrude them as you would edges and faces. I don't know if the vertex thing has anything to do the limitation. I just thought I would throw that in.

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      • mitcorbM Offline
        mitcorb
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        TIG:
        Last time I looked, ThomThom's Selection Toys only selected face loops, that is loops composed of faces, not loops composed of edges. I do think his tools will select edge loops totally contained within a face.

        Anyway, a girding edge loop would allow quick selection and you could scale it, move it copy it and so forth.

        Soon as somebody figures it out, the next step would be loop subdivide like Blender has.

        By the way, would the topic title need to be edited? From "delection" to "selection"?

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        • thomthomT Offline
          thomthom
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          I've seen this request a number of time - but I wonder do people have such clean geometry that it actually works. These other 3D apps to which people refer to usually allow for non-coplanar quads. While SU doesn't do this - significantly decreasing the usability for such a selection feature. The geometry need to be regular in its construction in order to determine the direction of the next edge to select.

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          • J Offline
            Jim
            last edited by

            Probably a gross over-simplification, but can't you grab the next connected edge whose angle between the current edge is less than a specified angle?

            As you say, regular geometry is required. It would not work so well on sub-divided mesh.

            Hi

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            • ken28875K Offline
              ken28875
              last edited by

              Hi TIG,

              You're correct, "ThomThom's Selection Toys only selected face loops, that is loops composed of faces".

              Hopefully someone will manage to figure out a script for that plugin.

              Thanks,

              _KN

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              • ken28875K Offline
                ken28875
                last edited by

                @ken28875 said:

                Hi TIG,

                You're correct, "ThomThom's Selection Toys only selected face loops, that is loops composed of faces".

                Oops, I meant to reply to mitcorb, not TIG. 😄

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                • TIGT Offline
                  TIG Moderator
                  last edited by

                  It's pretty easy to switch to wire-frame or Xray mode and position your camera to view 'side on' and then use select by fence with left-right drag so only things that are wholly inside the fence get picked [as opposed to right-left drag fence making which selects everything that has just a part of itself inside the fence]
                  Voila! you have the loops edges selected in 'one foul swoop'.
                  If you do select something that's not wanted then remove it from the selection-set by holding down shift+ctrl and re-picking it... ❓ 💭

                  TIG

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                  • EarthMoverE Offline
                    EarthMover
                    last edited by

                    Fredo's Hover Select has an option to "Extend selection to cofacial and aligned edges". It works to do a loop select on clean quads. Another option would be a script that I think Jim or TIG helped me with a while back called Select Edges by Z. You can pick an edge and run the script and it will pick all other edges on that Z coordinate.


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                    • ken28875K Offline
                      ken28875
                      last edited by

                      @tig said:

                      It's pretty easy to switch to wire-frame or Xray mode and position your camera to view 'side on' and then use select by fence with left-right drag so only things that are wholly inside the fence get picked [as opposed to right-left drag fence making which selects everything that has just a part of itself inside the fence]
                      Voila! you have the loops edges selected in 'one foul swoop'.
                      If you do select something that's not wanted then remove it from the selection-set by holding down shift+ctrl and re-picking it... ❓ 💭

                      Hi TIG,

                      Yes, that's a method I use sometimes, but it works on simple shape like the example I showed or on model with a few details. I was hoping for a plugin that will quickly help select edge loops on complex models.

                      Thanks though.

                      Have a great day! ☀

                      _KN

                      Follow Your Dreams.

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                      • ken28875K Offline
                        ken28875
                        last edited by

                        @earthmover said:

                        Fredo's Hover Select has an option to "Extend selection to cofacial and aligned edges". It works to do a loop select on clean quads. Another option would be a script that I think Jim or TIG helped me with a while back called Select Edges by Z. You can pick an edge and run the script and it will pick all other edges on that Z coordinate.

                        Hey Adam,

                        Thanks for the tips. I tried it but did not work so well as my model is quite complex and has lots of details.

                        Take care,

                        _KN

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                        • B Offline
                          blindcop
                          last edited by

                          I know this is an old post to bump, but in case someone finds it my new plugin was written to do this exactly:

                          http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=61884

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                          • josephkim626J Offline
                            josephkim626
                            last edited by

                            @earthmover said:

                            Fredo's Hover Select has an option to "Extend selection to cofacial and aligned edges". It works to do a loop select on clean quads. Another option would be a script that I think Jim or TIG helped me with a while back called Select Edges by Z. You can pick an edge and run the script and it will pick all other edges on that Z coordinate.

                            Thanks for the extension that you have included.
                            would it be possible to tweak it to just include "connected edges"?

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                            • 5 Offline
                              5k18a
                              last edited by

                              Any one know what plugin is it from this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA4tGgOFQJQ&t=553s It's great for selecting edges in a loop.

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                              • Rich O BrienR Online
                                Rich O Brien Moderator
                                last edited by

                                SketchUV and Profile Builder have this tool

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                                • cengiziletenC Offline
                                  cengizileten
                                  last edited by

                                  On the quadface tools, there is select loop button.

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                                  • B Offline
                                    Bruce Watt
                                    last edited by

                                    @cengizileten said:

                                    On the quadface tools, there is select loop button.

                                    Brilliant!, I have quad tools 'select' set on a shortcut. Just right click on the line and select 'selection'-> 'select loop'.
                                    Many thanks, cengizileten

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                                    • starshipS Offline
                                      starship
                                      last edited by

                                      I´m a bit late to the party, but... While Twilight render has other main purpose, looks like in the Pro version it has tools that allows to select edge loops: https://www.twilightrender.com/index.php/component/content/article?id=187:twilight-render-tutorials-tools

                                      Hope that helps.

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