[Plugin] AutoSmooth

thomthom

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

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.

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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

Ahmed0007

not work tgi move any advice?

thomthom

Can you be a bit more specific?

Ahmed0007

Not smooth edge that create by tgi3d move tool
Thanks