@Rich-O-Brien I sometimes disagreed with his opinions, but indeed he was a great person. He'll be missed for sure.

@lovellmarc not sure about the SketchUp/Rhino version, but in Vray for 3dsMax there's an useful option in the proxy settings window called "extract mesh" (or something like that), which does exactly what you are asking for. Did you check if there's a similar option in the SU version?

@roximate maybe just move it to the bin and download a new one from scratch?

@alexpacio2013 what are those balck dummyes around the tires and helmet?
Maybe some Vray for Sketchup decals?

@tuna1957 thank you ️

Thank you a lot @Rich-O-Brien

Another bunch of screenshots from the same series..
All modeled using QFT, VT2, SUbD and a bit of Curviloft, JPP and Artisan mixed in the process.
The UV mapping was done in Wrapr..

A few models I made recently for a manufacturer that makes custom sofas to fit on yachts.

@alvis super clean models

@alexpacio2013 Roberto, I fear that you messed up with the sketchup style window or maybe with Fredo's Mr hide and you just hide axes visibility by mistake. Try to doublecheck that.

@rv1974 i mainly use that feature to select all group copies and convert them to components (whenever I copy something around by mistake without making it a component to begin with). Never noticed that behaviour.. not sure if the glitch is related to the plugin. Most likely is some problem with SketchUp itself and how it natively handles sub-components local transform. The plugin is probably "bruteforcing" the intended SketchUp behaviour (which is working INSIDE the current context).

@rv1974 with selection toys you can select all instances at once, included the ones outside the current context and then copy, cut, delete move or do whatever you wanna do.

Edit. I tried right now and it looks that with a lot of components scattered across different contexts, they are pasted using their original group local transform instead of world transform. Even if you use "paste on place". Weird.

@rv1974 said in [Plugin] Axyz - v1.1a - 8 June 24:

@Rich-O-Brien Yes and no. without copying Select Instances+Axyz works fine.
Maybe you with(?) Fredo could develop a new rock solid version of "select all instances"?
BTW many people request "select all instances" that would copy all instances regardless the context to the memory buffer. the 20 y.o. one that I use can't do that.

Sorry for the late answer, but.. did you try Selection Toys?
Selecti a single instance, right click and in the context menu go to "instances" and then you can choose if you want select "all" (regardless the context) or "active" (all instances in the current context).

@alexpacio2013 nice to see you here Roberto.. really cool models!

@GrimReap did you use it with individual parts or it can manage models with multiple elements like machinery and such?

@Rich-O-Brien said in Flowify:

400k entities

Which eventually will become 400 millions after the flowify cut

@Rich-O-Brien looks interesting.. is it robust enough to open complex stp files or it's meant to be used only for small objects?

@erikcoleman1992 it's a free plugin.

@alsomar said in [Plugin] QuadFaceTools:

other software such as Substance Painter or RizomUV may struggle to handle these duplicates correctly

Hi Alejandro, I have no problem at all in Substance with QFT obj files (I can even bake hipoly objs into low poly objs with no issue).

BTW it's a known problem and has been there forever.
There's also a problem with unwelded UV islands (the UV are in the right places but actually each quad has cuts/seams at all edges).

I shared a few info and workarounds about this problem years ago, but unfortunately Thom is really busy and apparently doesn't have time to fix it for now, so we still have to use workarounds.

[Plugin] QuadFaceTools

@summerson1990 said: @pilou said: Why not export from Max only unwelded quads? (separated) I have found that it's probably best of all to export from max ...

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The workaround in 3dsMax I mentioned in that post is outdated.
Now I just filter the selection for polygons with 3 sides (in the selection tab) and erase all of them.
In some cases I also export from QFT to Blender and then export an FBX to 3dsMax.

@Rich-O-Brien
That's fine, I was just wondering if any important stuff in messages could be lost.
I can wait for sure..
By the way this works pretty nice on the 4,5" screen of my phone.
The old forum was almost unusable.