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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
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                      • thomthomT Offline
                        thomthom
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                        @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
                        List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                        • Rich O BrienR Offline
                          Rich O Brien Moderator
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                          @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

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

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                                          • thomthomT Offline
                                            thomthom
                                            last edited by

                                            Doh! Hmm... that's be tricky to catch...

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

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