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    Rich O Brien Moderator
    last edited by 20 Feb 2013, 01:02

    If I could make a suggestion....

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

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      thomthom
      last edited by 20 Feb 2013, 08:37

      @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 Brien Moderator
        last edited by 20 Feb 2013, 08:39

        Ok, still an awesome tool.

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          thomthom
          last edited by 20 Feb 2013, 08:52

          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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            pilou
            last edited by 20 Feb 2013, 09:25

            @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!
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              thomthom
              last edited by 20 Feb 2013, 09:31

              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 Brien Moderator
                last edited by 20 Feb 2013, 09:47

                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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                  pilou
                  last edited by 20 Feb 2013, 09:55

                  @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!
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                    thomthom
                    last edited by 20 Feb 2013, 10:08

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

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                      thomthom
                      last edited by 21 Feb 2013, 12:25

                      @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?

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                        Rich O Brien Moderator
                        last edited by 21 Feb 2013, 13:04

                        @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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                          thomthom
                          last edited by 21 Feb 2013, 13:08

                          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.

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                            Rich O Brien Moderator
                            last edited by 21 Feb 2013, 13:11

                            What you want?

                            Blender .obj export

                            SU .obj import saved as .skp?

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                              thomthom
                              last edited by 21 Feb 2013, 13:14

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

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                                shawnkelly
                                last edited by 3 Mar 2013, 03:34

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

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                                  thomthom
                                  last edited by 3 Mar 2013, 09:41

                                  It does - Blender exports non-planar quads. πŸ˜„ I already got an exporter in the making.

                                  Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                                    Rich O Brien Moderator
                                    last edited by 3 Mar 2013, 09:50

                                    Thom,

                                    I notice that if I have the move tool selected and then activate auto-smooth it fails to smooth.

                                    You may have mentioned that in the video but I missed it...

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                                      thomthom
                                      last edited by 3 Mar 2013, 10:10

                                      Ah. That world be a bug. As I always tap Space and activates the Select tool, so I didn't test the scenario of having one of Move, Rotate or Scale already activated.

                                      Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                                        Rich O Brien Moderator
                                        last edited by 18 Jan 2015, 22:29

                                        copying a mesh with CTRL+Move will make the mesh edges soft/smooth as in this .gif....

                                        auto-smooth.gif

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                                          thomthom
                                          last edited by 19 Jan 2015, 10:25

                                          Doh! Hmm... that's be tricky to catch...

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