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    • pilouP Offline
      pilou
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      Very tricky for the aspect of a volume β˜€

      but an headache for refind and correct the coplanar faces! πŸ˜„

      Frenchy Pilou
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      • Rich O BrienR Offline
        Rich O Brien Moderator
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        That's probably my most sought after tool ever....now if someone could write an exporter to obj that picked up these pseudo-quads and exported as a quad it'd be pretty sweet.

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        • thomthomT Offline
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          @unknownuser said:

          Very tricky for the aspect of a volume β˜€

          but an headache for refind and correct the coplanar faces! πŸ˜„

          Say what? πŸ˜• ❓

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

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          • thomthomT Offline
            thomthom
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            @rich o brien said:

            That's probably my most sought after tool ever....now if someone could write an exporter to obj that picked up these pseudo-quads and exported as a quad it'd be pretty sweet.

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            It might not be so much work to make such an exporter of could take an free one that was open for redistribution and combine it into QuadFace Tools.

            Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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            • pilouP Offline
              pilou
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              Does this more clear with my image above ? πŸ˜„

              Frenchy Pilou
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              • pilouP Offline
                pilou
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                No problem! πŸ˜‰

                It's just when you see the volume you think that is right, but some "hidden" faces are no coplanars πŸ˜„

                So there is a problem somewhere! A point is not at the correct x,y,z value! But witch ? πŸ’š

                Right but false.jpg

                Frenchy Pilou
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                • Rich O BrienR Offline
                  Rich O Brien Moderator
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                  If I could make a suggestion....

                  If somehow you could disable inferencing on ALT down it'd be great. πŸ‘

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                  • thomthomT Offline
                    thomthom
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                    @unknownuser said:

                    Does this more clear with my image above ? πŸ˜„

                    I'm afraid no. I don't understand what happens there and what are you expecting?

                    @rich o brien said:

                    If somehow you could disable inferencing on ALT down it'd be great. πŸ‘

                    Unfortunately no, only way would be to recreate the native tools.

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

                      Ok, still an awesome tool.

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                      • thomthomT Offline
                        thomthom
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                        Saying that though, I'm currently recreating Move, Rotate and Scale for BezierSurface. Might spawn them off as a separate thing at some point.

                        Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                        • pilouP Offline
                          pilou
                          last edited by

                          @unknownuser said:

                          I'm afraid no. I don't understand what happens there and what are you expecting?

                          Happen nothing special: it's correct Plugin function πŸ˜„

                          Expecting nothing special : Maybe I don't understand the "smooth" in general? 😳

                          Does it allow to see a perfect volume in hidde some edges
                          Does it allow to see a perfect volume in hidde some edges even some faces are not coplanar
                          ...

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

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                          • thomthomT Offline
                            thomthom
                            last edited by

                            Volumes? Are you thinking of solids? This plugin isn't related to solids - it works on any geometry.

                            @unknownuser said:

                            Expecting nothing special : Maybe I don't understand the "smooth" in general? 😳

                            You know when you modify some geometry and SketchUp triangulates the face because it's not planar any more? This plugin makes these edges Soft+Smooth - like when you Ctrl+Erase, or enable the Soft and Smooth checkboxes in the Entity Info.

                            I'm afraid I still do not understand what you are asking... πŸ˜• 😞 😳

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                            • Rich O BrienR Offline
                              Rich O Brien Moderator
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                              I think Pilou thinks that if you move a point to make a non planar face that the resulting skin will be correct. As in a type of make planar but Pilouified

                              This tool does not smooth a face it smooths the harsh edge that the default move tool creates.

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                              • pilouP Offline
                                pilou
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                                @unknownuser said:

                                This plugin makes these edges Soft+Smooth - like when you Ctrl+Erase, or enable the Soft and Smooth checkboxes in the Entity Info.

                                This tool does not smooth a face it smooths the harsh edge that the default move tool creates.

                                Ok we are agree! β˜€
                                My image above show the same!

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

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                                • thomthomT Offline
                                  thomthom
                                  last edited by

                                  Right, yes, this plugin doesn't make a face planar.

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

                                    @rich o brien said:

                                    now if someone could write an exporter to obj that picked up these pseudo-quads and exported as a quad it'd be pretty sweet.

                                    Rich, does the OBJ format support non-planar quads?

                                    Are you trying to exchange data between SketchUp and Blender?

                                    Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                                    • Rich O BrienR Offline
                                      Rich O Brien Moderator
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                                      @thomthom said:

                                      Rich, does the OBJ format support non-planar quads?

                                      Yes. But Blender will export a nonplanar quad as 4 tris, well that's how SU imports a untriangulated blender .obj export.

                                      @thomthom said:

                                      Are you trying to exchange data between SketchUp and Blender?

                                      Not just Blender. Most apps I use exchange nonplanar obj quads

                                      Why?

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                                      • thomthomT Offline
                                        thomthom
                                        last edited by

                                        Four triangles?

                                        Can Blender import this mesh and the quads are restored as quads - or are they now triangles?

                                        And you provide a small sample OBJ file?
                                        I could write an export utility into QuadFace Tools.

                                        Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                                        • Rich O BrienR Offline
                                          Rich O Brien Moderator
                                          last edited by

                                          What you want?

                                          Blender .obj export

                                          SU .obj import saved as .skp?

                                          Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp πŸ“–

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                                          • thomthomT Offline
                                            thomthom
                                            last edited by

                                            OBJ file from Blender with non-planar quads. I'd like to see how Blender generates them.

                                            Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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