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General Category => Feature Requests => Topic started by: samardac on November 02, 2015, 02:55:54 pm

Title: Make polygons cooplanar
Post by: samardac on November 02, 2015, 02:55:54 pm

IStonia can you make this tool:
(https://monosnap.com/file/K14fhHQzkiJoAhgn7ZeJ0klWpzcVMQ.png)

Some kind of - Make polygons cooplanar.

So first selected polygon will have information on how to make other selected polygons cooplanar.

Title: Re: Make polygons cooplanar
Post by: IStonia on November 07, 2015, 07:39:33 am

http://www.digitalfossils.com/Download/NVil-Nov-06-15.rar

Edit > Customize > Tools > Subobject Shortcut Tools > Orient Selection. Rotate subobject selection to align its normal to a target normal. By default, the target is the highlighted polygon/edge/vertex normal. If snapping is on, the target normal will be the under cursor object's normal.

Title: Re: Make polygons cooplanar
Post by: samardac on November 07, 2015, 03:53:57 pm

how does it works cannot understood?

Title: Re: Make polygons cooplanar
Post by: IStonia on November 07, 2015, 07:12:13 pm

1. Select a polygon.
2. Move the cursor over to highlight a polygon which faces different direction.
3. Press the hotkey of the tool. The selected polygon should be rotated to be parallel to the highlighted polygon.

Title: Re: Make polygons cooplanar
Post by: Darcvizer on November 07, 2015, 07:19:43 pm

Oooo cool!

Title: Re: Make polygons cooplanar
Post by: samardac on November 07, 2015, 07:41:58 pm

Got it, but may be I do not explain corecctly what I want, I meant not only set the normal orientation but also move to base polygon.
Check this video, I made this operation very often:
http://take.ms/tuv0x

I use Set Pivot manually and then scale. That is why I asked for this tool to avoid all these steps.

Can you make something like this?

Title: Re: Make polygons cooplanar
Post by: IStonia on November 07, 2015, 08:58:31 pm

Try this
http://www.digitalfossils.com/Download/NVil-Nov-08-15.rar

  * Edit > Customize > Tools > Subobject Shortcut Tools > Cooplanar Selection. Flatten subobject selection to a target's planar plane. By default, the target is the highlighted polygon/edge/vertex. If snapping is on, the target will be the under cursor object.

Title: Re: Make polygons cooplanar
Post by: samardac on November 08, 2015, 04:44:51 pm

Mega great!!!

Title: Re: Make polygons cooplanar
Post by: kevjon on November 09, 2015, 08:44:00 am

This is very useful addition to the software, thanks to both for the suggestion and implementation.

Title: Re: Make polygons cooplanar
Post by: samardac on November 09, 2015, 10:47:10 am

IStonia, can you modify it a bit so it will work like - first selected sub-object will be the base.
I need it to make button for this command. Now I cant, because cursor have to be under polygon.

Title: Re: Make polygons cooplanar
Post by: IStonia on November 10, 2015, 07:30:24 am

http://www.digitalfossils.com/Download/NVil-Nov-09-15.rar

If the command is executed outside viewport, the target will be the last point selected polygon/edge/vertex.

I think you can create a streamline tool with LMB/RMB click for the two commands. Then for the button,  LMB/RMB for the two commands, MMB for the streamline tool. This way you won't loose the flexibility. Just a suggestion.

Title: Re: Make polygons cooplanar
Post by: samardac on November 10, 2015, 09:57:58 am

Create, many thanks!