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    • S Offline
      Stermo
      last edited by

      This is my most used plugins

      Selection Toys
      Joint Push Pull
      Subdivide and smooth
      FredoScale
      BezierSpline

      I just try to help someone who want to know which plugin to try and learn

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        MartinK
        last edited by

        My TOP 6 are:

        1. Mirror
        2. Purge
        3. Cleanup
        4. Joint Push Pull
        5. Round Corner
        6. Selection Toys
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          faemow82
          last edited by

          I was just going to start a thread like this as I am a beginner and would like to know what the experts use on a daily basis.

          I don't really have a "top", but here are the plugins I use and work properly.

          Soap, Skin and Bubble
          Move to Origin
          Artisan
          Advanced Camera

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

            Vertex Tools
            TGI3D
            Artisan
            SketchUV
            KeyFrame Animation
            Mirror
            QuadFace
            Save to DropBox/Google Drive
            FredoTools

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              Trogluddite
              last edited by

              Without knowing what you want to model (or the the other folks who posted), it's hard to know how useful such a list will be - it depends so much on the style of modelling and final application. Also, "most used" is not always the same as "most useful" - a plugin that only gets used once a year can be "essential" if it saves several hours of manual modelling on a particularly urgent job.
              Pretty much all those listed so far are installed here, but here's a handful of my essentials not yet mentioned (used for designing mechanical parts for manufacture)

              Export face to SVG - saves me loads of dwg/dxf 'cleanup' time when exporting CAD for our laser cutting machine.
              Pen Tools+ - very handy for directly drawing construction lines and points.
              Hatch Faces - great for making hatched cross section drawings.
              Joint Push Pull - instant "thickness" for curved parts.
              Curvizard - for gluing lines into 'one-click-select' curves.

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                mitcorb
                last edited by

                Not yet mentioned here is Weld. I would say one of the oldest and most fundamental for me. And Recurve, a similar and more advanced tool.

                I take the slow, deliberate approach in my aimless wandering.

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                • pbacotP Offline
                  pbacot
                  last edited by

                  the lists could be misleading to some.

                  There are utility plugins that may actually be most-used, and are a great boon (default layer geometry, CleanUp, remove lonely vertices, recurve, start frontface), but then there are major tools like FredoScale, Artisan, Extrusion Tools, Tru-Paint. Vertex Tools. And it depends on if you are texturing a house or sculpting a mermaid what you are apt to "most" use on a given day. Somewhere between are joint-push-pull (JPP), follow-me and keep (FMAK), Shape bender etc.

                  Good to see some lists though... Mirror--I never use it, I'm a fool.

                  MacOSX MojaveSketchUp Pro v19 Twilight v2 Thea v3 PowerCADD

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                    Stermo
                    last edited by

                    @trogluddite said:

                    Without knowing what you want to model (or the the other folks who posted), it's hard to know how useful such a list will be - it depends so much on the style of modelling and final application. Also, "most used" is not always the same as "most useful" - a plugin that only gets used once a year can be "essential" if it saves several hours of manual modelling on a particularly urgent job.
                    Pretty much all those listed so far are installed here, but here's a handful of my essentials not yet mentioned (used for designing mechanical parts for manufacture)

                    Export face to SVG - saves me loads of dwg/dxf 'cleanup' time when exporting CAD for our laser cutting machine.
                    Pen Tools+ - very handy for directly drawing construction lines and points.
                    Hatch Faces - great for making hatched cross section drawings.
                    Joint Push Pull - instant "thickness" for curved parts.
                    Curvizard - for gluing lines into 'one-click-select' curves.

                    That is true And it will be good if everyone who post your most used plugins also share which plugins they use for a specific kind of modeling, because people like me who are beginning to learn new techniques will know which plugins to find and install and learn how to work and how to combine two or three plugins

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                    • jeff hammondJ Offline
                      jeff hammond
                      last edited by

                      most used? i probably use these ones in every single drawing session:

                      3pt arc (didier)
                      3pt rectangle (google)
                      recurve (diggsy)
                      bezier (fredo)
                      mirror (TIG)

                      dotdotdot

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                      • pilouP Offline
                        pilou
                        last edited by

                        My little list of indispensables 😉

                        Frenchy Pilou
                        Is beautiful that please without concept!
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