[Tutorial] convert triangular mesh to square mesh

unearthed

Hi All

I've been looking for a quick easy route to converting a From Contours mesh or TIN (Triangular Irregular Network) to a square mesh. This method involves dropping a From Scratch mesh over a From Contours mesh using TIG's drop vertices.rb http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=39251 - thanks TIG, it's a great plugin and speeds up my workflow dramatically.

triangular mesh to square mesh

And now that i've worked out the process I can go from an eyeball sketch of the ground surface to a simple terrain with a house mass model on the terrain in ½ an hour.

I've also included the .skp as some may find that more helpful.

Sometimes I use Terrain Reshaper plugin http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=11320 but my little machine sometimes has problems with all the processing.

Unzips to 1.6Mb

brodie

Good tutorial. Another option to consider would be using TIG's Drape Cpoints and Triangulate Cpoints scripts ( http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=21379 ).

You'll end up with a uniform level of detail unlike what you have in your tutorial but it may be a tad faster method.

-Brodie