[Plugin] AutoSmooth

Rich O Brien

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