Well... I have some time today

I like the idea of the favourites in Flextools. A long awaited for feature.
Now, I'd prefer the word "preset" instead of favourite but that's just a personal taste

To be really useful, I'd like FT to generate an explicit thumbnail of the preset, as sometimes I'm too lazy or uninspired when naming the preset. Dale's Profile Builder excels at that, even if sometimes it generates the thumbnail according to the actual axis system in use in SU when calling the PB window, which is not always ideal.

I criticize a lot, but it's because I want FT to be even better
Keep up the good work!

Hi it's me again

While handy, the cutter toggle button is too shy, I think.
The status deserves to be more visible, just an outer edge isn't enough.
I suggest wether change the colour of the icon when in cutter mode or use a scissor icon?

Hi again,

THis is a generic request but is it possible to have a small drawing quickly explaining the different parameters and where the offsets are taken exactly? The official Flex website are often outdated as you keep adding new parameters or behaviours and I end up forgetting how to use some parameters.

1001bit pro is very explanatory for example (well, sometimes it's buggy too as Goh hasn't updated for a long time)... A small bitmap embedded inside the dynamic component parameters window would be very cool.

I love FlexSlat and I often use it to quickly model railings.

1. Is it possible to have a quick parameter to make the slats vertical? By default they are horizontal and I always rotate manually the component to create vertical poles.

2. In order to place the poles precisely when I don't want a frame around it, I wether keep a dummy frame and when correctly placed, I change the frame size to 0x0, wether I use the script "add construction points to the bounding box corners". This is a generic topic but is it possible to have these construction points generated by default? I mean, a bounding box usable by the SU default inferences?

Hi Yoni and devs,

1. I see that the new FlexWindow is sticky by default.
   While this is often handy and I understand the advantage, sometimes it's annoying to have the FlexWindow stick to the ground when you want to create a vertical curtainglass (which by principle doesn't cut a wall, being the wall itself).

EDIT: sorry, I hadn't seen the toggle cutter button...

2. I can't create presets (favourites?) from my existing FlexWindow/doors/slats (grayed add favs icon). I guess this mean ùy components are not compatible with the new Flex definition standards?

Ok. Indeed problem solved. thanks!

Hi Yoni & all,

I've installed 1.1.0 and my toolbar gets quite long.
I've Flexdoor FT 1.2, Flexdoor FT 1.3 (grayed), etc.
Is it normal?

@esterkimx said:

I hope our plugin will improve your workflow

Hello, thanks for creating this forum.
yes, flextools are already improving (a lot) my workflow. I'll post all the ideas I chatted about with Yoni here soon...

Ok, thanks gor the reply.
So I still need to export my model to animate the cam in 3dsmax for now...

Hello Fredo,

Is there a simple way to make a camera move along a spline path? and following a target moving itself along a path?

The thing is, if I save you a file, then when you'll reopen it, you probably will not see the error.
It only happens (eventually) when you're working and once it happens, you can't get rid of it until you close the file.

If it doesn't ring a bell to you, it means I'm an isolate case?
The only way to solve the issue is to save, close skp and then reopen it...
But that doesn't explain me where the issue lies...

Hi all,

From time to time I get the infamous Problems were found that could not be fixed
The entity at address ********** has an invalid id (***) destroyed ()
during a random Validity Check when saving the skp.

I'm pretty sure it's related to SubD and QFT usage but can't solve the issue.

Anyone?

Look at the subdivided mesh and you'll realize it's not quad at all.
It's a triangle based mesh.
So of course it will not work. You have the same problem as I had earlier.
Convert to quad before launching Subd.

@thomthom said:

That might be it... using QFT there is a toolbar button to convert Sandbox Tools meshes to QFT meshes.

That was it. Obviously something went wrong when subdividing...

Thanks Thom for the reply,

Actually the sharp border option didn't work at all.
Perhaps had I to convert the sandbox mesh (+ artisan) to QFT quad first?

Hello Thom,
Is there a quick way to select the rim edges of a quad mesh?
I have to keep the vertices at their place so I need to crease the corners , yet their selection can take some time and I was wondering if there's some script for this.
Usually I use Select Outer Edges by Chris Fullmer but it seems it's not supported anymore in SU2017.

Is QFT your next release target?

@thomthom said:

@optimaforever said:

Gr8!!!
Do we have to unistall v1 first or...?

It should replace it. Should you find any problems - uninstall and install fresh. (And report back off course )

Indeed, it replaced the v1 perfectly so far.
Thanks!

Gr8!!!
Do we have to unistall v1 first or...?