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    • BoxB Offline
      Box
      last edited by

      Thomthom, any chance of adding a selection option where you can step the ring/loop selected?
      So, instead of adding or subtracting, each click moves the selection one loop over and deselects the one you are on.

      Edit: I'll just add this gif to help explain what I mean,I have a workaround but it would be helpful to have.


      Step Select.gif

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      • pilouP Offline
        pilou
        last edited by

        No French UI version ❓

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

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        • thomthomT Offline
          thomthom
          last edited by

          @cmoreink said:

          How do you import an .obj file?
          It crashes every time I try ---> file, import, select .obj file "oops, an error occurred 😞" a message displays (box) askes me if I want to send a report.
          The tool bar displays ok
          Any idea why?

          Can you share this obj file please? (You can PM me if you don't want to share the file publicly)

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

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          • thomthomT Offline
            thomthom
            last edited by

            @box said:

            Thomthom, any chance of adding a selection option where you can step the ring/loop selected?
            So, instead of adding or subtracting, each click moves the selection one loop over and deselects the one you are on.

            That's a good idea. Logged it in the issue tracker: https://bitbucket.org/thomthom/quadface-tools/issues/107/shift-loop

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

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            • thomthomT Offline
              thomthom
              last edited by

              @pilou said:

              No French UI version ❓

              No. ...not yet that is... I just set up a Crowdin project for this extension. πŸ˜‰
              But give me some time to localise SUbD and move to my new home. πŸ˜„

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

                Thx for the info, i had believed that i Miss something! 😎

                About the Crowdin, seems you must save after every new each line item input
                else seems that is not save as general input for several items! ❓

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

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                • thomthomT Offline
                  thomthom
                  last edited by

                  @pilou said:

                  About the Crowdin, seems you must save after every new each line item input
                  else seems that is not save as general input for several items! ❓

                  I'm sorry, I don't follow..?

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

                    No problem it's just for the use of Crowdin who seems curious with the Save of new translation! πŸ˜„

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

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                    • cmeedC Offline
                      cmeed
                      last edited by

                      Hi Thom Thom
                      I'm getting an error box when ever I open SU heres and image of the box that appears.

                      its seems to run ok though when i close the window.

                      cheers in advance

                      chris


                      2017-04-19_14-52-27.jpg

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                      • M Offline
                        mae_fierros
                        last edited by

                        How come the "Offset Loop" under my Quadface tools seems not to work/function in SU 2017 ? what is the most compatible extension for the 2017 version? thank you in advance

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

                          Offset Loop is still a work in progress.

                          It was a experimental feature Thom added a few versions ago.

                          Sometimes it works ok other times it fails. Always send crash reports when it fails.

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

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                          • K Offline
                            Kuu
                            last edited by

                            I've recently started learning to do quad modelling in other apps but these tools are great for doing stuff in sketchup! However there's a couple of tools I feel are missing which would be great to roundout QuadFaceTools:

                            1. Offset with edges. Basically just an offset tool but that builds all the connecting lines so you don't have to draw them in manually to preserve the quad topology, which is a drag. I tried looking at all offset plugins but none seems to do this relatively simple thing:

                            Offset with edges
                            Above offset with edges; below regular offset. (I'm not sure how the intersections would be though, but at least for simple offsets it would be easy)

                            1. Quadify N-gon. Basically automatically divide any convex polygon into quads, being able to preview and choose division type before finalizing.

                            Quadify
                            1st row is edge splitting but works with any N-gon, i suppose it would be nice to also make the extra loops.
                            2nd row is central but only works with N-gons divisible by two above N = 6
                            3rd row is grid splitting which is the best solution for large N values to avoid nasty poles.
                            4 and 5 provide other alternatives...

                            If these things could be added that would be awesome! Or if other plugins I don't know about already do this that would be nice too...

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                            • R Offline
                              rtd
                              last edited by

                              I hope that this is the best place for this question.

                              What is the relationship, if any, between 'vertexTools', 'subD', and quadFaceTools?

                              Are they independent or is one or more required for the other(s) to function?

                              Thank you

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                              • BoxB Offline
                                Box
                                last edited by

                                They are independent tools that work together. None are needed for others to work but they are authored by the same magician and therefore help you to pull a rabbit out of your hat or a hare out of your ....

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                                • thomthomT Offline
                                  thomthom
                                  last edited by

                                  SUbD do work best with quad topology - and for that you would be better of using QFT to author the mesh.

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

                                    @cmeed said:

                                    Hi Thom Thom
                                    I'm getting an error box when ever I open SU heres and image of the box that appears.

                                    its seems to run ok though when i close the window.

                                    cheers in advance

                                    chris

                                    Sorry man - I haven't visited this thread for a while. Do you still have this issue?
                                    What version of QFT and TT_Lib do you have installed?

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

                                      @kuu said:

                                      I've recently started learning to do quad modelling in other apps but these tools are great for doing stuff in sketchup! However there's a couple of tools I feel are missing which would be great to roundout QuadFaceTools:

                                      That's for the details suggetsions. I logged it in the issue tracker.

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                                      Meanwhile you can try out TIG's Split Tools: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=43376

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

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                                      • K Offline
                                        Kuu
                                        last edited by

                                        @thomthom said:

                                        That's for the details suggetsions. I logged it in the issue tracker.

                                        404 β€” Bitbucket

                                        favicon

                                        (bitbucket.org)

                                        Meanwhile you can try out TIG's Split Tools: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=43376

                                        Awesome. I did find TIG's tools a few days after I made that post, and it sure does the job but too many clicks breaks the sketchup flow: need to do the offset, escape the tool, pick the face and then another command... getting it done with just one command would be glorious since I offset a lot. An additional efficiency I thought of was if the tool ended with the new offset ring selected so it's ready to manipulate, because after using TIG's tool curves get destroyed and you need to pick the edges and select loop which adds even more commands...

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                                        • thomthomT Offline
                                          thomthom
                                          last edited by

                                          Version 0.13.0

                                          • Improved OBJ importer.

                                          • Handle different encodings.

                                          • Also look in "map" and "maps" directories when searching for textures.

                                          • Handle files referring to materials without a .mtl companion file.

                                          • Fix line segment import.

                                          • Support OBJ files with negative indicies.

                                          • Add a Quad-Edge Tool to mark edges as Quad Edges.

                                          • Unhide the experimental Offset Loop Tool

                                          • Dropped compatibility for SketchUp 2013 and older.

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

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                                          • K Offline
                                            kenancakir
                                            last edited by

                                            Thank you..

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