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    • Bob JamesB Offline
      Bob James
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      I was using VT the other day to align some vertices one at a time to a straight edge and all of a sudden a small circle appeared in place of the cursor and I could move a vertex and just click on the next one and move it without having to go back to the select-tool/move-tool each time. I've not been able to find out how to get that little circle tool back. ๐Ÿ˜•

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      • Rich O BrienR Offline
        Rich O Brien Moderator
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        If you have no verts selected and then activate the Move tool it goes into Hover Select mode and a little circle appears when you are over a vert to indicate it is selected.

        A shortcut to drop any selected verts is to right click and choose Select None. Now change to the move tool and this hover method is active.

        See you next month Bob ๐Ÿ˜‰

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        • Bob JamesB Offline
          Bob James
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          Thanks, Rich. Such a great tool ๐Ÿ‘ The merge vertices: oh yes. The gizmo

          Have tickets. Have reservations. Raring to go ๐Ÿ˜

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          • iichiversiiI Offline
            iichiversii
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            Best tool ever, it's completely changed sketchup forever, thanks TT ๐Ÿ‘

            Bring on the Rain...

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            • thomthomT Offline
              thomthom
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              Thanks guys! ๐Ÿ˜„

              Thomas Thomassen โ€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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              • pbacotP Offline
                pbacot
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                Would it make sense for "Merge Close Vertices" to default to the last user setting? I always get it reverting 3/8", even in the same session, which is pretty small for what I do.

                I have found that merge vertices helps remove the rough look of Sandbox and other terrain surfaces. I am not sure why some surfaces look overly creased and I am not sure yet this is a good solution, but it seems to work without affecting the topography too much.
                creased terrain.png
                In this example the setting was 36", run a couple times (plus a Make Planar in one spot) and the ditch in this area is still "intact".less creased terrain.png

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                • thomthomT Offline
                  thomthom
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                  @pbacot said:

                  Would it make sense for "Merge Close Vertices" to default to the last user setting?

                  Ah! I can see it's hard-coded to 10mm. ๐Ÿ˜ณ One setting that slipped past me. I'll add it to the next bug-fix release. (I'm going away this week - will be gone most of it. Not sure if I get time to sort it out until after I get back.)

                  Thomas Thomassen โ€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                  • pbacotP Offline
                    pbacot
                    last edited by

                    Thanks ! Well have fun, wherever you're off to!

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                    • thomthomT Offline
                      thomthom
                      last edited by

                      @pbacot said:

                      I have found that merge vertices helps remove the rough look of Sandbox and other terrain surfaces. I am not sure why some surfaces look overly creased and I am not sure yet this is a good solution, but it seems to work without affecting the topography too much.

                      That could be due to small edges that's got a distinct different angle then the rest of the geometry. The shader computes a normal for each vertex based on its connected faces. Each face obtains a shading which is a gradient between each vertex normal. If just on is off by a sharp angle you get that harsh shading difference.

                      Thomas Thomassen โ€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                      • thomthomT Offline
                        thomthom
                        last edited by

                        Version 1.1.4 Released

                        • Merge Close tolerance wasn't remembered.
                        • Toggle Select didn't work for new vertices after using Extrude Edges.

                        Thomas Thomassen โ€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                        List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                        • panixiaP Offline
                          panixia
                          last edited by

                          man, doesn't work for me.. ๐Ÿ˜ž
                          i re-installed version 1.1.3 and it works fine again..

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                          • thomthomT Offline
                            thomthom
                            last edited by

                            @panixia said:

                            man, doesn't work for me.. ๐Ÿ˜ž

                            โ“

                            Can you be specific please?

                            Thomas Thomassen โ€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                            • panixiaP Offline
                              panixia
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                              so.. when i install the .rbz the tool stops to work at all, the regular sketchup 1 button toolbar shows, but when you clik it, the floating vertex tols toolbars doesn't appear at all.
                              same thing on my laptop and desktop pc.
                              i pulled off the .rb and the folder from plugins directory and reloaded the 1.1.3 version and works fine again on both machines.
                              that's it

                              i even tried to open ruby console but i can't understand how to use it, but i noticed that on version 3 it only says: "quietly_force_sync_mats_cb just called"
                              when i opened it calling v4 it was continuosly scrolling tons of error messages.. i don't know..

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                              • thomthomT Offline
                                thomthom
                                last edited by

                                @panixia said:

                                when i opened it calling v4 it was continuosly scrolling tons of error messages.. i don't know..

                                Those error messages are the most important pieces of information to report. Please post back the error messages as I am not able to reproduce this.

                                Also, what OS, OS version and SketchUp version do you have.

                                If you open the Ruby Console and type TT_Vertex.debug_info - what is the result of that?

                                @panixia said:

                                "quietly_force_sync_mats_cb just called"

                                That is related to V-Ray for SketchUp.

                                Thomas Thomassen โ€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                                • panixiaP Offline
                                  panixia
                                  last edited by

                                  don't ask me why but now i reinstalled 1.1.4 and it works fine again..
                                  sketchup m3 on win7home premium, anyway

                                  also i notice in the credits it is not v 1.1.4 but 1.2.0 and also have this cool merge to point button, so the upgrade works..

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                                  • Dave RD Offline
                                    Dave R
                                    last edited by

                                    Why don't you update SketchUp to M4?

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                                    • thomthomT Offline
                                      thomthom
                                      last edited by

                                      @panixia said:

                                      don't ask me why but now i reinstalled 1.1.4 and it works fine again..
                                      sketchup m3 on win7home premium, anyway

                                      also i notice in the credits it is not v 1.1.4 but 1.2.0 and also have this cool merge to point button, so the upgrade works..

                                      ๐Ÿ˜ฎ ๐Ÿ˜ฒ Oh crap!
                                      My head is still a mush after the field trip with the office - lack of sleep. I built the experimental development build instead of v1.1.4! ๐Ÿ˜ณ

                                      Pulled and uploaded the correct version!

                                      Oh well - 15 people got some secret experiment to play with. (Another thing to add to the check list...)

                                      Thomas Thomassen โ€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                      List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                      • panixiaP Offline
                                        panixia
                                        last edited by

                                        @dave r said:

                                        Why don't you update SketchUp to M4?

                                        i'm not on mac, i'don't use layout, i don't have any problem at the moment with M3, the toolbars are stable (2 months!! record!!!) i enjoy the old logo, everything is fine, i'm lazy.. it's that enough? ๐Ÿ˜„

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                                        • panixiaP Offline
                                          panixia
                                          last edited by

                                          @thomthom said:

                                          Oh well - 15 people got some secret experiment to play with. (Another thing to add to the check list...)

                                          ๐Ÿ˜†

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                                          • thomthomT Offline
                                            thomthom
                                            last edited by

                                            A good thing you got that error for whatever reason - otherwise I'd probably not have noticed for a very long time! ๐Ÿ˜•

                                            Thomas Thomassen โ€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                            List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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