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optimaforever

@thomthom @TIG
I love TIG's drop vertice feature when I need to conform a quad web onto a given (usually triangulated) surface below for topography mesh for instance. It works but I lose the quad property of the net.
Is it possible to adapt TIG's code to keep the "quad-ness" while dropping the vertices?

panixia

@optimaforever said:

@thomthom @TIG
I love TIG's drop vertice feature when I need to conform a quad web onto a given (usually triangulated) surface below for topography mesh for instance. It works but I lose the quad property of the net.
Is it possible to adapt TIG's code to keep the "quad-ness" while dropping the vertices?

If you triangulate the quadmesh (using the triangulate command in QFT) it will work like a charm.
This trick will work also for artisan brush and some other tools which don't "officially" support quads.

optimaforever

@panixia said:

@optimaforever said:

@thomthom @TIG
I love TIG's drop vertice feature when I need to conform a quad web onto a given (usually triangulated) surface below for topography mesh for instance. It works but I lose the quad property of the net.
Is it possible to adapt TIG's code to keep the "quad-ness" while dropping the vertices?

If you triangulate the quadmesh (using the triangulate command in QFT) it will work like a charm.
This trick will work also for artisan brush and some other tools which don't "officially" support quads.

triangulate the quad mesh prior to drop vertices to keep the quadness? interesting

panixia

@optimaforever said:

triangulate the quad mesh prior to drop vertices to keep the quadness? interesting

Yes, exactly.

optimaforever

@panixia said:

@optimaforever said:

triangulate the quad mesh prior to drop vertices to keep the quadness? interesting

Yes, exactly.

You're a genius!
And you can keep the quads while using sculpt brush with Artisan!!!

panixia

@optimaforever said:

Note that my meshes aren't perfectly quadbased; there are sometimes tris. I'm wondering how it will manage that ;D

It will work as expected: will create a proper diagoanl for each quad and will leave any other polygon (triangle or ngon) as it is.

thomthom

@optimaforever said:

I've always wondered why thomthom proposed the triangulate quads option. now it makes more sense.
I thought you lose the quad properties when triangulating but apparently not.

QuadFace Tools quads can be planar SketchUp quads, or they can be two triangle separated by an edge that is Soft+Smooth+Not Casting Shadows.
It's not intuitive, but it was the only way I could manage to sanely work with quad meshes in SU.

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