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    Smoov Tool on "Simple" Surfaces

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    • P Offline
      pmiller
      last edited by

      Many thanks, this will be useful.

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        kwistenbiebel
        last edited by

        Well I be damned!
        Thanks for sharing this as I didn't know about this easter egg...
        Amazing what you can do with it.

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          boofredlay
          last edited by

          Thanks John. 👍

          http://www.coroflot.com/boofredlay

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            remus
            last edited by

            cheers for the heads up on the shift thing, all this time and i never knew you could do that 😛

            http://remusrendering.wordpress.com/

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              lewiswadsworth
              last edited by

              Six years using this damn program and I didn't notice that one! What a great find!

              col sporcar si trova

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                solo
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                Desperately trying not to sound like an idiot, but can somebody explain this to me?
                I am admittedly very ‘ruby-challenged’, in fact at one stage I decided to download every ruby I could find and ended up with a drop down menu that looked worse than a monthly Walmart receipt.
                Here comes the stupid question “what is the ‘smoov’ tool”

                http://www.solos-art.com

                If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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                  fbartels
                  last edited by

                  Pete,

                  It is the Sandbox tool with the red arrow. It is used to move a circular area (size specified by user) of a TIN up or down, or sideways with the shift key held down.

                  Fred

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                    solo
                    last edited by

                    Thanks Fred

                    I really should get out more, and maybe give the sandbox tool another go some time, I manipulate my meshes the old way, using resize tools and move tools, then getting frustrated and using z-brush.

                    http://www.solos-art.com

                    If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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                      CraigD
                      last edited by

                      Yep, there's some neat stuff in that there SketchUp! 😉

                      Thanks for showing one of our hidden gems John!

                      Model well, and have fun! 😄

                      Cheers,

                       - CraigD
                      

                      Google SketchUp

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                        Ross Macintosh
                        last edited by

                        I attach some old Smoove-related images I had made to highlight that the tool can loft selections. Perhaps the images will inspire someone to do something funky with the smooth tool.

                        Regards, Ross


                        1-linear-smooved.jpg


                        2-linear-smooved.jpg

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                          kwistenbiebel
                          last edited by

                          I think Whaats upcoming plugin still adds more control though.
                          Also, Whaats 'subdivision' option could make the use of 'smooving' more interesting as we can subdivide in between smoove commands.
                          But indeed, will Sketchup be able to react fluently when polycount increases?

                          I would be willing to skip all my wishes for SU 7 and just keep 'higher polycount control' as the one and only must have wish for next release . Go Google 😉

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                            Gaieus
                            last edited by

                            Oh, I remember these from the old forums, Ross! Lerarnt a lot from those tuts! 😄

                            Gai...

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