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    • pilouP Offline
      pilou
      last edited by

      No problem! πŸ˜‰

      It's just when you see the volume you think that is right, but some "hidden" faces are no coplanars πŸ˜„

      So there is a problem somewhere! A point is not at the correct x,y,z value! But witch ? πŸ’š

      Right but false.jpg

      Frenchy Pilou
      Is beautiful that please without concept!
      My Little site :)

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      • Rich O BrienR Offline
        Rich O Brien Moderator
        last edited by

        If I could make a suggestion....

        If somehow you could disable inferencing on ALT down it'd be great. πŸ‘

        Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp πŸ“–

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        • thomthomT Offline
          thomthom
          last edited by

          @unknownuser said:

          Does this more clear with my image above ? πŸ˜„

          I'm afraid no. I don't understand what happens there and what are you expecting?

          @rich o brien said:

          If somehow you could disable inferencing on ALT down it'd be great. πŸ‘

          Unfortunately no, only way would be to recreate the native tools.

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

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          • Rich O BrienR Offline
            Rich O Brien Moderator
            last edited by

            Ok, still an awesome tool.

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            • thomthomT Offline
              thomthom
              last edited by

              Saying that though, I'm currently recreating Move, Rotate and Scale for BezierSurface. Might spawn them off as a separate thing at some point.

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

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              • pilouP Offline
                pilou
                last edited by

                @unknownuser said:

                I'm afraid no. I don't understand what happens there and what are you expecting?

                Happen nothing special: it's correct Plugin function πŸ˜„

                Expecting nothing special : Maybe I don't understand the "smooth" in general? 😳

                Does it allow to see a perfect volume in hidde some edges
                Does it allow to see a perfect volume in hidde some edges even some faces are not coplanar
                ...

                Frenchy Pilou
                Is beautiful that please without concept!
                My Little site :)

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                • thomthomT Offline
                  thomthom
                  last edited by

                  Volumes? Are you thinking of solids? This plugin isn't related to solids - it works on any geometry.

                  @unknownuser said:

                  Expecting nothing special : Maybe I don't understand the "smooth" in general? 😳

                  You know when you modify some geometry and SketchUp triangulates the face because it's not planar any more? This plugin makes these edges Soft+Smooth - like when you Ctrl+Erase, or enable the Soft and Smooth checkboxes in the Entity Info.

                  I'm afraid I still do not understand what you are asking... πŸ˜• 😞 😳

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

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                  • Rich O BrienR Offline
                    Rich O Brien Moderator
                    last edited by

                    I think Pilou thinks that if you move a point to make a non planar face that the resulting skin will be correct. As in a type of make planar but Pilouified

                    This tool does not smooth a face it smooths the harsh edge that the default move tool creates.

                    Sent from my iPad

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                    • pilouP Offline
                      pilou
                      last edited by

                      @unknownuser said:

                      This plugin makes these edges Soft+Smooth - like when you Ctrl+Erase, or enable the Soft and Smooth checkboxes in the Entity Info.

                      This tool does not smooth a face it smooths the harsh edge that the default move tool creates.

                      Ok we are agree! β˜€
                      My image above show the same!

                      Frenchy Pilou
                      Is beautiful that please without concept!
                      My Little site :)

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                      • thomthomT Offline
                        thomthom
                        last edited by

                        Right, yes, this plugin doesn't make a face planar.

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

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                        • thomthomT Offline
                          thomthom
                          last edited by

                          @rich o brien said:

                          now if someone could write an exporter to obj that picked up these pseudo-quads and exported as a quad it'd be pretty sweet.

                          Rich, does the OBJ format support non-planar quads?

                          Are you trying to exchange data between SketchUp and Blender?

                          Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                          • Rich O BrienR Offline
                            Rich O Brien Moderator
                            last edited by

                            @thomthom said:

                            Rich, does the OBJ format support non-planar quads?

                            Yes. But Blender will export a nonplanar quad as 4 tris, well that's how SU imports a untriangulated blender .obj export.

                            @thomthom said:

                            Are you trying to exchange data between SketchUp and Blender?

                            Not just Blender. Most apps I use exchange nonplanar obj quads

                            Why?

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                            • thomthomT Offline
                              thomthom
                              last edited by

                              Four triangles?

                              Can Blender import this mesh and the quads are restored as quads - or are they now triangles?

                              And you provide a small sample OBJ file?
                              I could write an export utility into QuadFace Tools.

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

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                              • Rich O BrienR Offline
                                Rich O Brien Moderator
                                last edited by

                                What you want?

                                Blender .obj export

                                SU .obj import saved as .skp?

                                Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp πŸ“–

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                                • thomthomT Offline
                                  thomthom
                                  last edited by

                                  OBJ file from Blender with non-planar quads. I'd like to see how Blender generates them.

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

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                                  • S Offline
                                    shawnkelly
                                    last edited by

                                    I would be interested as well, simply because I am not so sure that it does such a thing.

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                                    • thomthomT Offline
                                      thomthom
                                      last edited by

                                      It does - Blender exports non-planar quads. πŸ˜„ I already got an exporter in the making.

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

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                                      • Rich O BrienR Offline
                                        Rich O Brien Moderator
                                        last edited by

                                        Thom,

                                        I notice that if I have the move tool selected and then activate auto-smooth it fails to smooth.

                                        You may have mentioned that in the video but I missed it...

                                        Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp πŸ“–

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                                        • thomthomT Offline
                                          thomthom
                                          last edited by

                                          Ah. That world be a bug. As I always tap Space and activates the Select tool, so I didn't test the scenario of having one of Move, Rotate or Scale already activated.

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

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                                          • Rich O BrienR Offline
                                            Rich O Brien Moderator
                                            last edited by

                                            copying a mesh with CTRL+Move will make the mesh edges soft/smooth as in this .gif....

                                            auto-smooth.gif

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