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    • D Offline
      Daniel S
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      @unknownuser said:

      That would be great. What program are you doing that in Daniel?

      3DVIA Shape.

      @chris fullmer said:

      As an example, there is a moment in the last video that shows the chair being made. They deform the back arc, and then do the front. How do they gaurantee that the 2 deformations are identical and not just "sort of close".

      I think that the tools are precise. The best for the chair will be to deform the back and the front together:
      1.gif

      SketchUp has precise measurements with the VCB.
      3DVIA seems to have the measurements directly onscreen:
      3.gif
      (I move 0,5 meters the front and back)
      without zoom:
      2.gif

      This tool is fantastic!

      Daniel S

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        kwistenbiebel
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        3D VIA is getting ahead of Sketchup it seems when it comes to built-in modeling tools.
        Can someone please wake up the Googies?...

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          utiler
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          @kwistenbiebel said:

          3D VIA is getting ahead of Sketchup it seems when it comes to built-in modeling tools.
          Can someone please wake up the Googies?...

          Second that!!! I'm going there to DL a trial....

          purpose/expression/purpose/....

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          • EarthMoverE Offline
            EarthMover
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            Seems as though it would work along the same principals as Fredo's radial bend ruby as far as deforming of faces and lines into arcs. Not sure how they would code it to work with verticies.

            I don't get that 3dvia program. So, it's a program like sketchup, except you can only use it online and you can't export or save any of your models to the hard drive? Seems pointless and a waste of good modeling tools.

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              thomthom
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              @earthmover said:

              I don't get that 3dvia program. So, it's a program like sketchup, except you can only use it online and you can't export or save any of your models to the hard drive? Seems pointless and a waste of good modeling tools.

              Isn't it owned by Microsoft? Made for their own map service?

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

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                remus
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                I think your thinking of truespace thom, which microsoft has recently abandoned. 3dvia is owned by dassault systems, the same people who make solidworks.

                Back to the original topic, can you do the transformation in non-planar directions?

                http://remusrendering.wordpress.com/

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                  thomthom
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                  @remus said:

                  I think your thinking of truespace thom, which microsoft has recently abandoned. 3dvia is owned by dassault systems, the same people who make solidworks.

                  http://www.microsoft.com/virtualearth/product/3dvia.aspx

                  @remus said:

                  Back to the original topic, can you do the transformation in non-planar directions?

                  I imagine it'd be possible to do in any direction. You'd just need the vector to where it'd deform. It kind of reminds me of Chris' Loft tool.

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

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                    remus
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                    Its quite funny watching some of their videos, the similarity to SU/google earth is striking 😛

                    http://remusrendering.wordpress.com/

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                      silver_shadow
                      last edited by

                      Sure looks awesome, just imagine how cool it would be if su could do that as easy as that.
                      That would be an awesome and hectic powerful tool

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                        pilou
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                          Stinkie
                          last edited by

                          @unknownuser said:

                          @kwistenbiebel said:

                          3D VIA is getting ahead of Sketchup it seems when it comes to built-in modeling tools.
                          Can someone please wake up the Googies?...

                          Hey Kwist, why don't you change your name into 'Google Basher'? Your ranting in every single topic is getting a little repetitive. Seriously, very annoying.

                          Doesn't change the fact he's right.

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                            sepo
                            last edited by

                            I do not get it as well. It seems quite powerfull little soft, but without saving I can't see the point. As it is made by same people who made Catia I supose it does support high poly well.. Also it has bit more advanced inferencing system, I would say, than SU.
                            Anyway before they make the save version it is not going to go anywhere IMO.

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                              remus
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                              He might be right, but it's still very annoying (and quite insulting.)

                              http://remusrendering.wordpress.com/

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                              • StinkieS Offline
                                Stinkie
                                last edited by

                                Well ... I'd find it annoying too - if I were Coen. But I'm not. I don't make any money off propagating SU (no ... I don't have anything against that, far from it), I am merely a customer of Google's. As such, my view on this matter differs quite radically from Coen's.

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                                  Stinkie
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                                  @unknownuser said:

                                  @unknownuser said:

                                  Well ... I'd find it annoying too - if I were Coen. But, I'm not.

                                  If I were from Belgium I wouldn't either.

                                  Eh?

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                                    dacad
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                                    Coen, for someone with your post's signature, that's a strange thing to say about kwistenbiebel's statement... ("Never punish a person that is honest. ~CN") lolol

                                    About this plugin idea it would be great if it could come true but my question here is how would the number of faces created by the deformation of a face be controled?

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                                      remus
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                                      id imagine youd do it trough specifying the number of arc segments.

                                      http://remusrendering.wordpress.com/

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                                        erikB
                                        last edited by

                                        Coen,
                                        I think the reference to "being from Belgium' is totaly misplaced, and a moderator unworthy.
                                        erikB

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                                          remus
                                          last edited by

                                          Coen isnt a moderator.

                                          http://remusrendering.wordpress.com/

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                                            thomthom
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                                            @unknownuser said:

                                            So Skin Soap & bubles, can make the trick in su 😉

                                            Close, but not quite. Soap Skin doesn't transform the edges, only the surface in between. This anchors the vertexes and deforms faced and edges.

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

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