@einstein said:

Hi,
I was thinking of how to achieve controlled one-axis scale with vertex tools 2.
As far as I know, we currently have two methods of scaling, each having its limitations:

• the "gizmo scale" where we can scale vertices in one axis (non-uniform scale) but cannot choose to scale origin - it is arbitrary set to center of selection,
• the scale tool available from toolbar icon, where we can scale with more precision: pick scaling origin, then source and target position. Very handy, but only lets us do uniform scale.
  It would be very cool to combine advantages of both methods and have a precise, non-uniform scaling tool with soft selection.

With the gizmo you can move the gizmo to a custom location before you scale.

Adding a feature request for non-uniform scale with the Scale Tool.

@einstein said:

PS 2 From time to time I get a message that my VT2 licence is invalid, then I have to type my key again. It is not a big issue as it happened a few times this year (firstly with VT, now with VT 2), but I thought I would mention it.

That's strange indeed. I've not heard of that. Almost sounds like something is resetting files on your machine. Do you have software that cleans up your machine?

@megiveup said:

I'm not sure where to ask this but here goes. I've installed Vertex Tools and have a beginners question. I can't seem to get the soft selection to work. I make a selection and type in a distance and nothing changes and the soft-selected count says zero. I've tried typing in small increments and large increments but nothing changes. What am I missing?

Does it happen with any model?

Can you share an example model?

@einstein said:

tuna1957, I am asking exactly about the latest version 2.0.3, not 2.0.0. The changelog is not very accurate.

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@einstein said:

Hi! May I have a couple suggestions for VT2 development?
I love to hear suggestions! (Sorry for the late reply - the last bit of 2020 was a rough one for me. Had no capacity to stay up to date with the forums.)

@einstein said:

• more SketchUp-native-like manner of manipulating gizmo's handles. What I mean is that you have to click+drag gizmo's arrow to move a vertex and only then type a precise value. I wish I could click, let mouse go, type value and hit ENTER. This would be more "sketchuppish" behaviour. Maybe there could be a button to choose behaviour.

You can do these accurate Move/Scale/Rotate actions with the dedicated tools.
I hadn't thought of allowing a click-release behaviour of the gizmo. But I'll add that to the list of things to look into.

@einstein said:

Also, current behaviour leads to unwanted situations like: when you precisely adjust radius of your soft selection, then drag a gizmo's handle/arrow to move verts, the selection gets updated before you type desired value of move. I wish I could lock/freeze soft selection so it wouldn't update after a transformation is performed - only when I decide to manually change my selection. This could be an adjustable behaviour too and it would help a lot with precise modelling.

Noted.

@einstein said:

• bevel vertices with more segments (like Fredo Corner but Fredo Corner doesn't work with flat faces)

Can you elaborate on what doesn't work? Example screenshots?

@einstein said:

• BUGFIX - when you bevel vertices of a flat face, sometimes the face gets removed (but I'm unable to reproduce the bug now)

If you can reliably repro I'd love to look into it.

@einstein said:

• also make possible to bevel verts without manually dragging them, just by typing value and hitting ENTER

So; select vertices, activate Bevel tool and immediately type into the VCB?

@einstein said:

• move vertices with snapping (to other vertices, edges, edge midpoints, guides)

You mean with the Gizmo? Because the Move tool does this. With the gizmo it's not straight forward to how snapping would work as you pick a point in the gizmo and not the mesh.

@einstein said:

• soft selection profile edit and profile presets, like in Blender: dome, pinch, random etc. I know they are on the to-do list, just can't wait for them!

It will come

Yup, it's on my list to add a way to select all creased entities. Might add a separate Clear Creasing as well for easy shortcut-action.

@einstein said:

What was added in v2.1.6? I cannot find an accurate changelog.

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@nlipovac said:

If not mistaken, at moment we get only proprtional movement.

If you switch you Slide By Offset I think you will get what you are looking for. (Except that it moves and doesn't copy the loop.)

@nlipovac said:

As for this one, I mean that when I select one cut loop and use Vertex slide to make a copy it would maintain parallel to one I made copy off and not conform to loop or edge I am pushing it to.
Hope it makes sense.

I don't fully manage to visualize what you are asking for. Could you illustrate it by mocking up the desired result compared to existing Offset modes?

@nlipovac said:

Also of the topic, I never learned to make those short gifs, what do you use for that?

I use ScreenPresso, though it's not free. Though there is a number of free ones out there. This one looks interesting: https://www.screentogif.com/

@nlipovac said:

Is it possible to add option, i.e. hold CTRL, when using vertex slide to copy moved vertices and this way I can add loops without exiting Vertex tools?

It's already on the list for consideration.

@nlipovac said:

And one more wild one, plus if I hold Shift I get that copy to be parallel to ones I have made copy off.

Would this be different than switching Vertex Slide to Slide by Offset instead of Slide by Percent?
https://evilsoftwareempire.com/vertex-tools/manual/editing#vertex_slide

@cmeed said:

this has probably been asked before - can I move the gizmo and have it snap to a point?

Oh wait, did I read that correctly?

Did you talk about snapping while positioning the Gizmo? Or snapping while using the Gizmo Move?

@cmeed said:

this has probably been asked before - can I move the gizmo and have it snap to a point? in 10 years of questions I think this has been asked.... 'negative' will be the answer.

maybe i need to ask why cant it?

Because it's not been entirely clear what to snap to. The user grabs hold of the gizmo which is offset from the gizmo origin, so is snapping supposed to snap the origin to the point snapped? Or the point grabbed?

There's been some conversations about this - this thread for instance: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=66039#p606094

Snapping is described to relate relative to the gizmo origin, and with improved control of setting the origin.

If you have your own idea of how snapping should work with the Gizmo I'm happy to hear it. I'm not sure everyone has the same expectations on how this would work.

Because of that the separate Move/Rotate/Scale tools has been the main means of precision adjustments. While the gizmo is more eyeballing it.

I'd be curious to hear why you prefer the Gizmo to snap as oppose to using the separate Move/Rotate/Scale tools. (Maybe there's some improvements with them that you achieve the same thing?)

Ah! I see the same thing. That's a bug - thank you for reporting!

@cadfather said:

when i choose the select tools from the menu, I only get the rectangle selection.

Menu or toolbar? Exactly what item do you select? Can you do a screenshot for me?

@cmeed said:

Loving the vertex slide. question - Can we copy the vertexes along the edge?
the cursor changes, adds plus and minus with the addition of shift. I assume there isn't a copy function? (yet?)

That's interesting. I'll have to think a little on how that would technically work. But I logged it for consideration.

Can you share the 3D model with me?

@nlipovac said:

Well, I reallllllllyyyyyyy love Vertex Slide A LOT!
Still having some pole issues but this time I have patients to finish it.

I want to find a 3D printing service that can make this in ceramic for me!

@hornoxx said:

... for Dummies like me - do I have to uninstall the previous vertex tools somehow before or does the new version overwrite the old one?

Version 2 can be installed side by side with version 1. (But v2 got everything v1 got - so I don't see the need.)