Hi everyone,
I’m currently brushing up on my SketchUp skills and working through the best way to efficiently soften border edges, often those that form a closed loop.

In cases where there are many edges, I’d like to avoid manually softening each one individually. Does anyone have tips, tools, or workflows that can speed this up?
Thanks!

@Rich-O-Brien said in Softening a border edge:

The Soften Edges Panel will help you control the surface normals of a selected surface based on an angle threshold.

Thanks Rich, In this way you set the boundary condition of the angle treshold. I guess the question is more : what is the most efficient way to select certain edges of a (boundary) selection. Once they are selected you can do anything you want with them (in my case I want to soften them)

@Dave-R said in Softening a border edge:

Select all of the edges that you want to soften, right click on the selection, choose Soften. If needed, adjust the slider in the Soften Edges panel in the tray.

Thanks Dave! But that means I still need to select edges individually if its not already a curve (or already welded edges) I was hoping there was a plugin that could assist.

Hi everyone,
I’m currently brushing up on my SketchUp skills and working through the best way to efficiently soften border edges, often those that form a closed loop.

In cases where there are many edges, I’d like to avoid manually softening each one individually. Does anyone have tips, tools, or workflows that can speed this up?
Thanks!

@dave r said:

What is the "correct order"? How is that determined?

Thanks very much Dave!!, I now realize that it is indeed a bit of a shady definition!
I just meant that each polygon has a begin and an end-point and the "correct" order is getting the sequential line segments in that order. So for example for a polyline consisting of 3 line segments I would get 4 co-ordinates in order that makes up the polyline:

x1,y1 start line segment a
x2,y2 end line segment a, start line segment b
x3,y3 end line segment b, start line segment c
x4,y4 end line segment c

I think this is the only way to rebuild a polyline if all you have are the co-ordinates.

Regards
Michiel

I have asked this question before but I guess its now somewhere on the bottom of the pile and I have not had a response yet Before I abandon this idea I would like to give it one more try:

I need to draw polygons (trace a scaled map) and export co-ordinates in the correct order to a csv.
I found this great plugin from TIG (Export Vertices to CSV), which works fine, except it dumps the coordinates not by following the line segment order. I am trying to read the generated point file into a python script that redraws the polygon for me... but I get quite a mess this way...

Thanks in advance!
Michiel

Hi is there perhaps a way this plugin (or other) can export the co-ordinates of the polyline segments in the correct order? I am trying to reconstruct a polygon by loading in the co-ordinates from the csv, but I need them in the correct order. At the moment I am basically getting a point cloud

Thanks
Michiel

Does anybody know if there is a plugin to export a polygon to a csv file with the coordinates in the correct order? I found this great plugin from TIG (Export Vertices to CSV), which works fine, except it dumps the coordinates not by following the line segment order. I am trying to read the generated point file into a python script that redraws the polygon for me... but I get quite a mess this way...

Thanks in advance!
Michiel

@fredo6 said:

One possibility is to convert the original to Polyline, which will give you the sequence of control points. Indeed, make a copy of the original bezier curve before.

@mluy said:

wow, I am honoured to get a response from the great Frodo himself!, you are a absolute hero just wanted to say that.

But I am not quite sure what you mean, because if I convert the bezier curve to a polyline (which I did) I just get a polyline....where are the control points ?

oops initial response too fast I got it now!, thanks very much!!

oops too fast I got it now!, thanks very much!!

@fredo6 said:

One possibility is to convert the original to Polyline, which will give you the sequence of control points. Indeed, make a copy of the original bezier curve before.

wow, I am honoured to get a response from the great Frodo himself!, you are a absolute hero just wanted to say that.

But I am not quite sure what you mean, because if I convert the bezier curve to a polyline (which I did) I just get a polyline....where are the control points ?