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    • Rich O BrienR Online
      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
        thomthom
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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˜• ❓

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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.

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          • pilouP Offline
            pilou
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            Does this more clear with my image above ? πŸ˜„

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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

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              • Rich O BrienR Online
                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.

                  Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                  • Rich O BrienR Online
                    Rich O Brien Moderator
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                    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.

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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
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                          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 Online
                            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
                              last edited by

                              @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.

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                                • thomthomT Offline
                                  thomthom
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                                  @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 Online
                                    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 Online
                                        Rich O Brien Moderator
                                        last edited by

                                        What you want?

                                        Blender .obj export

                                        SU .obj import saved as .skp?

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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
                                          List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                            shawnkelly
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                                            I would be interested as well, simply because I am not so sure that it does such a thing.

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