[Plugin] Pen Tool +
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Turn hidden geometry on (View menu) and you will see the soft edges the tool draws. Certainly one could live without it: draw traditional edges and soften them afterwards. Sometimes it is a pain in the butt though if you need to draw a lot. This is best to add edges to (or heal missing faces of) already soft meshes, most of the times curved surfaces.
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This is something I wanted for a long time, and in fact I d/l'd it last year, put it in my "2B installed" directory (off the "plugin" dir), and then.....
promptly forgot about it.
An all to common occurrence with me.So today, I got this thread notice, d/l'd it and got the XP warning about overwriting a file.
So,
I installed it.Rich, is there any way to set the toolbar in a vertical format?
I have no horizontal space top or bottom screen for more toolbars, but I have space on the left, 2 icons wide.
Can I edit the script (with your instructions) until you hopefully furnish an update? -
Resize it like you would any other toolbar
or windows window for that matter. All toolbars can be resized horizontally or vertically
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@unknownuser said:
Resize it like you would any other toolbar
or windows window for that matter. All toolbars can be resized horizontally or vertically
Thank you for the excellent guidance...
For some reason it did not work for me at first.
I reloaded SU and it is resizing as expected. -
Just found this, as usual way behind the plug-in bleeding edge.
Its Freaking Great.
Thanks Rich
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Hi Rich,
Your Pen set is very nice and I'm glad to use it as a basic SU tools.
I would like to bring your attention on the fact that Pen tools invalidates Jim's Construction Line Tool (opening your Construction Points Pen in place of)
Jim's Construction Line Tool have the very useful option to let the choice to put or not construction points at the construction line extremities.Do you think it would be possible to add this option to your pen tool ( and may be to fix interference with Jim's tool ?)
Cheers,
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Simon
Edit the PenTool's .rb file with Notepad or Notepad++.
Use Find+Replace [respecting the 'case'] for the 4 occurrences ofCLineTooland replace withC**P**LineTool, there's also a lowercase 'def clinetool' - make that 'def cplinetool' too; then it won't clash with Jim's 'CLineTool' at all...
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Can you try the latest version I uploaded?
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=329548#p329548
I added TIG's suggestions.
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Hi Rich and TIG,
What a reactivity
Jim's tool in now back!
Thank you to both of you ++It would be nice to make this option available with your "Guide Draw" because:
Then people will have the choice to use the simple Jim's tool or you complete set
simon -
I'll look at Jim's code to see if I can do it.
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@unknownuser said:
I'll look at Jim's code to see if I can do it.
Note, also Jim's tool will allow you to make an infinite guide line. Which I find very useful, as I can draw between two points and have a infinite guideline reference.
Thanks for you plugins
Ken
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Rich, ever think about adding a "Group Draw"? Standard line tool that that creates a group upon initial click and draws all lines in that group? Would be useful for me quite often.
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That's a great suggestion Adam. But i fear way beyond my skill level.
And I think TIG will break my legs if I pester him anymore about this.
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Not to play the rat here, but wouldn't that be best implemented as a 'begin (within) new group model now' thing, rather than something limited to line creation?
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Simon,
Just in case I made a tool that converts any cline to normal line and vice versa, also changes the stipple and color as needed. That may solve some of your inference needs. (I still love and use this tool also though)
See here:
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@brookefox said:
Not to play the rat here, but wouldn't that be best implemented as a 'begin (within) new group model now' thing, rather than something limited to line creation?
Most of the Tools on Surface from Fredo come with an option to create within a new group. I use that one quite a bit, but those tools don't always work as expected when not drawing on a surface. It's easy enough to just draw two lines, group them, open the group, then delete the lines and you're in a group where any native tools apply. I just figured most modeling starts with the line tool, so if that initiated the group, you could continue with any other tools from within it and be ahead of the game. I use this most often when tracing perimeters for contours or use with instant site grader plugin.
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I did draw many soft edges, while I corrected rounded corners on object. Later suddenly the tool stopped working and it draws only hard edges, anywhere. I'd stress a lot with it, but nothing helped.
http://i46.tinypic.com/288wq5e.png
When I draw hard edges to triangle, the connected lines do not create a face.
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@rumcajs said:
I did draw many soft edges, while I corrected rounded corners on object. Later suddenly the tool stopped working and it draws only hard edges, anywhere. I'd stress a lot with it, but nothing helped.
http://i46.tinypic.com/288wq5e.png
When I draw hard edges to triangle, the connected lines do not create a face.
IDK about your first question, but on the Second: Note that the "Edge" tool "E" is designed NOT to form faces to provide that option. The "LINE" tool "L" will form faces.
In regards to the Soft Draw tool I do find that it will only draw soft lines (hidden geometry ON) when connecting across a face. For me it will not draw soft edges in open space as shown in the video.
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¡Thanks!
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The Soft edge tool can close faces. But I did not used Edge tool (!). I used Soft edge - "S" tool, but it draws hard edges instead soft. But I did cca 20-40 faces with soft tool and soft edges when I started the model. And later it stopped to work. So strange. I like the Soft edge tool very much, because it can save a lot of time, but one needs to know, why it fails to draw soft edges occasionally.
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