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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
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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.

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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
                  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
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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?

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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
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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...

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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
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                                      • A Offline
                                        Ahmed0007
                                        last edited by

                                        not work with TGI Move 😞

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                                        • A Offline
                                          Ahmed0007
                                          last edited by

                                          not work tgi move any advice?

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                                          • thomthomT Offline
                                            thomthom
                                            last edited by

                                            Can you be a bit more specific?

                                            Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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