[Plugin] Soften/Unsoften

CadFather

chango70

Wow this answered my prayers!

watkins

Dear Matthieu,

I have downloaded and installed the plugin. When I open SU I find a toolbar but no Icons. Is this an oversight?

Kind regards,
Bob

CadFather

Bob, you need both the plug in and the folder called smooze (with the icons)

watkins

Dear CadFather,

Many thanks for that. As an aside, are you Italian? I ask because I spent a very happy year at the University of Trento.

Kind regards,
Bob

watkins

Dear Matthieu and Cadfather,

I am a little confused about what to download. I have the icons showing, but nothing works. The last thing I downloaded and tried is the very last .zip file posted by Cadfather.

Regards,
Bob

Matt666

Hi CadFather !
I updated the code, with another tool. It softens edges whose angle normal faces is below 20 degrees.
So now you've got three tools :

Mildly Soft edges
Completely Soft edges
Unsoft edges

You forgot a bit of code at the end...

if (not file_loaded?("Soften.rb"))

Now the tool will be loaded just one time !

and the code is also changed following the RickW notices (I hope )

Good luck for the next icon

EDIT : Version 1.1

Soften.rb

CadFather

will post a working final version from Matt very soon - need to finish a couple of things first.

Bob, yes one of those...

CadFather

Hi Matt, i have a problem with the new version: nothing happens

still works with the old one

i have updated the script with the 3 icons (changed the name for the new command icon)

CadFather

small update for whoever likes this idea:

tweaked Matt's plugin so i get 2 icons (if you ever needed) enable in view > toolbars > soften
(i removed menus in plugins)

now it is a quick step!

Thanks Matt!

watkins

Thanks!

publied

oh my hero, my savior! this plugin is very useful for me! thanks!

tedvitale

Does anybody know of a plugin that allows me to soften multiple grouped objects? I have a lot of 3DS models that i import that need to be smoothed and cleaned up, but I have to open each group and soften them individually, which is quite painstaking. Any Suggestions?

massimo

http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=22920

shri

very handy tool..thanks alot

rv1974

I can't find a way to assign shortcuts for these tools. Does the needs to be updated, or it's me missing something?

TIG

Remember that this script is ~10 years old !
Because it only makes a toolbar there are no menu items to shortcut onto !
However, the native smooth/soften toolset is easily accessed via a shortcut, as that has context and menu items...
Why do you need this tool in preference to the built-in native one - the old code uses the very slow 'typename' entity checker, the native one also has more controls over what is changed... ?

designerbursa

jhs powerbar 3d rotate error fix

def onLButtonDown(flags, x, y, view)

nothing with this click if nothing is selected

puts 'nil' if(Sketchup.active_model.selection.length == 0)

Keep what's currently selected.

Might be temporarily selected because its hovered if there was no selection when tool was selected

@hasSelection = true

Select point when and draw when clicking

first 3 clicks select points and set jaw & pitch. 4th and 5th click are optional and sets roll

if @state == 0
# Select anchorpoint
#@pAnchor.pick view, x, y
if @pAnchor.valid?
@state = 1
@status_text = "Grab entity." # first status text defined in reset()
Sketchup::set_status_text(@status_text, SB_PROMPT)
end

elsif @state == 1
# Select startpoint 1
#@pStart1.pick view, x, y, @pAnchor
if @pStart1.valid?
@state = 2
@status_text = "Pick target to drag entity towards."
Sketchup::set_status_text(@status_text, SB_PROMPT)
end

elsif @state == 2
# Select targetpoint 1 and set yaw and pitch for selection
#@pTarget1.pick view, x, y, @pAnchor
if @pTarget1.valid?
@state = 3
@status_text = "(Optional) Grab entity again."
Sketchup::set_status_text(@status_text, SB_PROMPT)

  self.rotateYawPitch(@pAnchor.position, @pStart1.position, @pTarget1.position)

  # Set rotated flag so script knows whether to update view or not when leaving tool
  @rotated = true
end

elsif @state == 3
# Select startpoint 2
#@pStart2.pick view, x, y, @pAnchor
if @pStart2.valid?
@state = 4
@status_text = "Pick target to drag entity towards."
Sketchup::set_status_text(@status_text, SB_PROMPT)
end
elsif @state == 4
# Select targetpoint 2 and set roll for selection
#@pTarget2.pick view, x, y, @pAnchor
if @pTarget2.valid?
self.rotateRoll(@pAnchor.position, @pStart2.position, @pTarget2.position, (@pTarget1.position - @pAnchor.position))

  self.reset(view)
end

end
end#def