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    • D Offline
      Daniel S
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      Thank you for your answer Thomas.
      I thought that maybe exists a magic method but is not the case.

      Thank you again,
      Daniel S

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        thomthom
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        No magic I'm afraid. Just think of the geometric constraints - making one non-planar quad planar requires that you move its vertices and that means that it will affect all the geometry connected to the vertices.

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

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          Daniel S
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          @thomthom said:

          No magic I'm afraid. Just think of the geometric constraints - making one non-planar quad planar requires that you move its vertices and that means that it will affect all the geometry connected to the vertices.

          Yes, of course will affect the geometry connected to that face. I was asking if there was a method where can I make all quads coplanar automatically and connected. With every quad with a different normal. This normal will be an average normal of the two triangles that makes the original non-planar quad.
          Perhaps already exists a solution for converting all non-planar to coplanar quads creating more coplanar quads for connecting the geometry. Of course changing the original shape of the model as little as possible. Only a doubt that I always had.

          Daniel S

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          • thomthomT Offline
            thomthom
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            I don't know if it is at all possible. But it won't be anything I'll be trying in the near future. So many other things that needs to be done first.
            And the purpose of this plugin was to provide a way to treat triangulated quads as one unit...

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

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            • thomthomT Offline
              thomthom
              last edited by

              Version 0.2.0b

              • Select Region to Loop
              • Remove Triangualtion
              • Make Planar
              • Context Menu
              • Smooth / Unsmooth Quads
              • Blender Quads to SketchUp Quads

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

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                Panga
                last edited by

                Thanks thomthom for this plugin ! 👍

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                  Ben Ritter
                  last edited by

                  Thank you Thomthom, very much.

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                    pep75
                    last edited by

                    HOLY

                    Brilliant!!
                    Thanks!

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                      notareal
                      last edited by

                      Wow!

                      Welcome to try [Thea Render](http://www.thearender.com/), Thea support | [kerkythea.net](http://www.kerkythea.net/) -team member

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                      • thomthomT Offline
                        thomthom
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                        @earthmover said:

                        Any plans on adding a Ring Connect option as a way to add additional loops?

                        I just felt like teasing you with a screenshot of a new tool I've been working on...

                        ConnectEdgesWIP.png

                        😉

                        ( What I'd love to do later on to improve it is to adapt the splits to the geometry around them. )

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

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                          babman91
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                          Remind me to donate tons of cookies when I graduate from college after a year

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                            thomthom
                            last edited by

                            @earthmover said:

                            Any plans on adding a Ring Connect option as a way to add additional loops?

                            I finally got it working! Just need to finish the UI. 😄 😄
                            I hope to release 0.3 this week. 😉

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

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                            • thomthomT Offline
                              thomthom
                              last edited by

                              Version 0.3.0

                              • Connect Edges
                              • Insert Loops
                              • Remove Loops
                              • Flip Edges

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

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                                EarthMover
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                                👍 👍 Greatness achieved my friend! Thanks for all you do in the name of progress!

                                3D Artist at Clearstory 3D Imaging
                                Guide Tool at Winning With Sketchup
                                Content Creator at Skapeup

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                                  thomthom
                                  last edited by

                                  @earthmover said:

                                  :sketchstatic: 👍 👍 Greatness achieved my friend! Thanks for all you do in the name of progress!

                                  This release is dedicated to you my friend. 😉

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

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                                    thomthom
                                    last edited by

                                    Updated the first post with a video of a coming UV mapping feature. 😉

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

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                                      Rich O Brien Moderator
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                                      👍

                                      I want to play too 😞

                                      Where'd you get that UV Map?

                                      Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp 📖

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                                        thomthom
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                                        @unknownuser said:

                                        Where'd you get that UV Map?

                                        Made it myself. I use it in my template where I have replaced the Googlers with a 1x1x1m standard metric UV mapped cube. 😄


                                        UV Mapping Test Tile

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

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                                        • EarthMoverE Offline
                                          EarthMover
                                          last edited by

                                          Nice work with the UV idea. Just so I understand, once you are able to establish the orientation via the quad distribution, you can then use a larger map over the entire surface and have it distribute evenly? It's not going to just scale the texture per the quad boundaries, correct? If it's doing what I think, it's bloody brilliant! 👍

                                          3D Artist at Clearstory 3D Imaging
                                          Guide Tool at Winning With Sketchup
                                          Content Creator at Skapeup

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                                            Stinkie
                                            last edited by

                                            Wait, wait ... just woke up, so let me see if I got this right ... no more distorted textures?

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