[Plugin] AutoSmooth

[thomthom]

@unknownuser said:

Does this more clear with my image above ?

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.

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

[Rich O Brien]

Ok, still an awesome tool.

[thomthom]

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

[pilou]

@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

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
...

[thomthom]

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...

[Rich O Brien]

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

[pilou]

@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!
My image above show the same!

[thomthom]

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

[thomthom]

@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?

[Rich O Brien]

@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?

[thomthom]

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.

[Rich O Brien]

What you want?

Blender .obj export

SU .obj import saved as .skp?

[thomthom]

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

[shawnkelly]

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

[thomthom]

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

[Rich O Brien]

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...

[thomthom]

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.

[Rich O Brien]

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

[thomthom]

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

[Ahmed0007]

not work with TGI Move