[Plugin] Selection Toys
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Fix live on EW. Found a couple of other small bugs that I need to fix in another update. Will post that soon and make sure to update on PluginStore as well.
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I have a selection question. I guess if any plugin can help me, it is this one. But I am not sure how. Maybe someone can help me.
I have this model with many (non-quad) faces. And I would like to soften all the triangulation-edges so that I am left with seemingly quad faces.
I guess the best way would be to soften everything, then select the edge loops and unsoften them. But I don't know how.Is it possible at all with this plugin?
If yes, how?
Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers,
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It's unpredictable to try to determine the diagonals of pseudo-quads. I've tried but what is easy to our eyes is not easy to a script.
How did you create that mesh btw? Several extensions have support for QuadFace tools. which will create what you want.
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I can't understand if and how I can use this plugin to select only edges delimiting holes inside a surface, rather than also external edges of the surface itself.
For example, in this case:
I want only this selection:
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You might be able to select those edges more easily if you soften/smooth the surface first.
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Indeed! And then you could probably drag a selection box around the edges of the hole to select the edges. No plugin needed.
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This is only a small part of a very large model, it would take years to edit all holes by hand:
That's why I'm looking for some automation.
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Right Click > Select Only > Border Edges
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For some reason, "Select Coplanar Faces" results some other parallel faces selected that aren't necessarily "Coplanar"?
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@josephkim626 said:
For some reason, "Select Coplanar Faces" results some other parallel faces selected that aren't necessarily "Coplanar"?
Could you post an example SKP file that exhibits this behavior?
And please complete your profile with SketchUp version and operating system.
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@josephkim626 said:
For some reason, "Select Coplanar Faces" results some other parallel faces selected that aren't necessarily "Coplanar"?
The menu name is misleading - it's Same Direction instead of truly coplanar.
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@dave r said:
@josephkim626 said:
For some reason, "Select Coplanar Faces" results some other parallel faces selected that aren't necessarily "Coplanar"?
Could you post an example SKP file that exhibits this behavior?
And please complete your profile with SketchUp version and operating system.
Sorry, it is tested on windows 7 and sketchup 2014 (in different machines)
Red circled face was the face that was used to execute "select coplanar face"
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@tt_su said:
The menu name is misleading - it's Same Direction instead of truly coplanar.
So there's no bug. Just a naming confusion. it would appear that "Coplanar Faces" should read something like "Parallel Faces with Normals Facing the Same Direction". Select>Parallel Faces selects Parallel Faces regardless of the normal orientation.
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Perhaps 'CoNormal', rather than 'CoPlanar' ?
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Hello
Tomtom
Can i Translate this somehow?
Please HelpRoland F.
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This is by far the plugin I use the most. Does anyone know if there is a way to make hot commands similar to 3dmax or softimage for the selection toys. I know you can right click and get to the tool from there when you have a selection, but I do not see an option for a hot key in my preferences. I find myself wanting to press the 2 or E keys frequently.
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You can set up a shortcut to any native or plugin generated menu/context-menu command.
But for that command to appear in the filtered list, then that command must be available when you open Preferences > Shortcuts dialog.
So for example, if you want to shortcut 'Reverse Face' you must have a face preselected before opening the dialog, otherwise there will be no matching entry in the list.
Pressing a shortcut key when the command is not available just does nothing.
Remember you can assign the F-keys too, and keys in conjunction with modifiers like Shift/Ctrl/Alt
Do not shortcut plain .,;[]<>/*- x s, TAB, plain-numerals, or the arrow-keys - as these are used by SketchUp and/or several plugins... -
The methods above did not seem to work. "reverse face" is in the dialouge box already as an option to apply a shortcut, but selection toys only has options to create shortcuts for the UI Settings, Edge Loops, And Cheat Sheet. Apologies if I am missing something
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Works for me, did you have a face selected before opening your preferences?
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Is Selection Toys working with Sketchup 2015 for you guys?
At Preferences, it shows there as loaded.
But I get no toolbar, no right-click context options, no submenu either at Extensions nor Tools...
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