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      rv1974
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      @thomthom said:

      @rv1974 said:

      The only thing left to be clarified is when v2019 will be out 😄

      Good question. I'll make a post when I know myself. 😉

      If you sit by the river long enough, you will see ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶b̶o̶d̶y̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶e̶n̶e̶m̶y̶ ̶f̶l̶o̶a̶t̶ ̶b̶y̶ thomthom's post about v2019

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        pbacot
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        Know thyself.

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          Einstein
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          Hi!
          I'd have another suggestion of upgrade. "Make Planar" tool would be more useful if we could specify the plane for selected vertices to be flattened to. For example, set the plane with two vectors, like TIG's Mirror does.

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            Box
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            @einstein said:

            Hi!
            I'd have another suggestion of upgrade. "Make Planar" tool would be more useful if we could specify the plane for selected vertices to be flattened to. For example, set the plane with two vectors, like TIG's Mirror does.

            Adjust the Gismo to the direction you want then Make Planer.

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              thomthom
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              @einstein said:

              Hi!
              I'd have another suggestion of upgrade. "Make Planar" tool would be more useful if we could specify the plane for selected vertices to be flattened to. For example, set the plane with two vectors, like TIG's Mirror does.

              You can also scale to zero for the same effect in the model axis planes.

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

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                Einstein
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                Wow, scaling to 0 😲 It is a game-changer I wished SketchUp had for a long time. And only now I realised FredoScale can do it as well.
                Curious how many more surprises are hidden in these little buttons 😄

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                  Box
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                  One of the most frustrating things about teaching is how much students don't learn. Which can be read as hear, see, retain, remember, bother to take in, have any interest in, or simply haven't been exposed to. Amongst others.
                  Pretty much everything has already been asked, answered and argued over in these forums, much like the rest of the internet you never get to the end of it and there's not much that hasn't already gone before.

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                    thomthom
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                    @einstein said:

                    Wow, scaling to 0 😲 It is a game-changer I wished SketchUp had for a long time. And only now I realised FredoScale can do it as well.
                    Curious how many more surprises are hidden in these little buttons 😄

                    I don't recall if v1 snap to scale 0 - but v2 will for sure. Making it easier.

                    (I had similar revelation about scaling negative to flip/mirror.)

                    @box said:

                    One of the most frustrating things about teaching is how much students don't learn. Which can be read as hear, see, retain, remember, bother to take in, have any interest in, or simply haven't been exposed to. Amongst others.
                    Pretty much everything has already been asked, answered and argued over in these forums, much like the rest of the internet you never get to the end of it and there's not much that hasn't already gone before.

                    Challenge with all the gems in the forums is that they aren't always easy to find. Often they are buried deep in lengthy threads.

                    Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                      Box
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                      So true, I didn't mean anything by it. Just noting that we all tend to read what's in front then scroll on rather than following the story.

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                      • algorad88A Offline
                        algorad88
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                        Hi Thomas,
                        Thank you so much for the great plugin.
                        Is there a chance to add some features to VT:

                        1st: to extrude with scale similar to the move tool by holding the Ctrl key?

                        2nd: Furthermore moving only in one direction at a time is time consuming, I've seen you've got another type of gizmo which has three planes which you can move in two direction by clicking on each of them?

                        3rd: Also, the soft selection selects vertices in a sphere shape, could you add a feature to firstly choose which vertices to select and then continue to soft select?

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                          thomthom
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                          @algorad88 said:

                          1st: to extrude with scale similar to the move tool by holding the Ctrl key?

                          Yes - in fact, it's already added to the upcoming v2.

                          @algorad88 said:

                          2nd: Furthermore moving only in one direction at a time is time consuming, I've seen you've got another type of gizmo which has three planes which you can move in two direction by clicking on each of them?

                          Also coming in v2. 😄

                          @algorad88 said:

                          3rd: Also, the soft selection selects vertices in a sphere shape, could you add a feature to firstly choose which vertices to select and then continue to soft select?

                          Can elaborate on this? Screenshots? Example model?

                          Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                            algorad88
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                            @thomthom said:

                            Yes - in fact, it's already added to the upcoming v2.

                            Also coming in v2. 😄

                            Thanks for the great news 👍 👍 👍

                            @thomthom said:

                            Can elaborate on this? Screenshots? Example model?

                            This is how Vertex Tools selects vertices if I type 30 for soft selection:

                            https://i.ibb.co/p2mLKcC/image.png

                            But I only want the bottom quads selected. So, firstly I have to group those quads and then modify the vertices:

                            https://i.ibb.co/wBWq7H4/image.png

                            But this method has some deficiencies:
                            first, we will have separated quads by modifying vertices.
                            second, to join them again, we need to move those vertices which both takes much time and may not be accurate
                            third, we need to explode the group to join the parts again.
                            But if there were an option just like grouping which let you choose which vertices to affect the soft selection, then we could eliminate those steps

                            https://i.ibb.co/h7d1Z9H/image.png

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                              thomthom
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                              I see now. I got plans for that as well - to add an option to apply soft selection by connected edge distance.

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

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                                SpookyChick1013
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                                Thom, I love the plugin, but there is a problem I keep running into, and I'm not sure if it's just a missing feature, or if it's a PEBKAC error. Is it possible to scale things unidirectionally?

                                For example, select group of vertices, and then scale with gizmo tool only in the positive direction on the chosen axis, instead of what it currently does, which is scale in both positive and negative on the chosen axis?

                                If there is a way to do this, it would make me very happy, 😄 as currently, this is not as useful to me as it could be for shaping terrain, which is my main use for VT.

                                In order to avoid this being a Pebkac error, I havealready looked over the manual, and read back through the thread. So far, I haven't found a way to do this. Basically, I just want hte scale function to work the same way SU's native scale tool does, or Fredo's scale tool. As it is right now, it acts like Fredo's scale tool after you press CTRL, with no way to turn that off.

                                Arigato!

                                https://kuromatsudriveyards.com

                                Fo-su to tomo ni aran koto o...

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                                  thomthom
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                                  You can scale in the choose axis by holding down Shift. But it doesn't stop at 0. (But v2 will stop at 0 so it's easier to scale to zero.)

                                  Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                                    SpookyChick1013
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                                    Hmm. I guess I didn't do a very good job of explaining the problem. 😕 The Scale tool in VT seems to scale both up and down on whatever axis, from the centerpoint of the tool, or the selected geometry. It's not a matter of trying to scale to 0. 😄 Maybe if I put it this way; If I have a mesa in a piece of flat ground, and I select only the pillar portion of the mesa, and try to scale it upward in height by a factor of three, I should only have vertices moving upward. Instead, I get some vertices moving upward, and some moving downward, leaving the pillar of the mesa, now sitting in a narrow crater. 😲 How do I alter settings so it only scales upward from the lowest point of the selected geometry? I keep thinking I remember it working this way once upon a time... 😕

                                    I'll try to post some illustrations of the problem soon.

                                    THanks

                                    Ok. Pics. 😎 THis is what I'm trying to do is scale the selected portion to be 3 times the current height.
                                    Problem Illus 1.JPG

                                    Problem Illus 2.JPG
                                    And this is what I get. 😲 Note the geometry around the pillar is scaled downward. I need to know how to turn that off, if it's possible. I hope the pictures help. 😄

                                    https://kuromatsudriveyards.com

                                    Fo-su to tomo ni aran koto o...

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                                    • thomthomT Offline
                                      thomthom
                                      last edited by

                                      I see.
                                      I don't recall if Gizmo scale uses the Gizmo origin as scaling origin. If so then setting a custom position for the gizmo might help. (from the context menu on the Gizmo).

                                      But that's probably somewhat awkward workflow. The Vertex Tools Scale tool might be the better choice with the current version.

                                      I logged an issue to look into better scaling control for future versions.

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

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                                        SpookyChick1013
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                                        I thought that was the VT scale tool...? I'm confused now...Maybe there's something I'm missing? If there is something I'm missing, I do apolgise for being an ID10T error. Apparently that's a sin to some people around here, (not talking about you by the way,Thom) as I've found in the past.

                                        I do appreciate you logging this though. A solution that would make it work more like Fredo's scale tool would be awesome.

                                        https://kuromatsudriveyards.com

                                        Fo-su to tomo ni aran koto o...

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                                        • thomthomT Offline
                                          thomthom
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                                          There are two ways of scaling in Vertex Tools, via the Gizmo;
                                          ExtrudeEdges.png

                                          and via the Vertex Tools scale tool:
                                          2019-04-12_10h07_38.png

                                          Which one of these were you referring to?

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

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                                            SpookyChick1013
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                                            The Gizmo, because that was the only thing I had ever seen in VT. I found out why I thought that was the only method of scaling. I apparently had settings tweaked so the Gizmo would show up anytime I clicked on scale. Even so, neither the Gizmo, nor the scale tool does what I need at the moment. The scale tool keeps tapering things for some reason...

                                            I guess I'll just have to find some other way to do things. A shame really, because in many other ways VT is great for Terrain forming.

                                            Thanks!

                                            https://kuromatsudriveyards.com

                                            Fo-su to tomo ni aran koto o...

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