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General Discussion / Re: New user where to begin?

« Last post by IStonia on January 23, 2025, 12:21:14 pm »

When you have the Rotation manipulator visible, you can see the rotation angle values displayed in the Manipulation window. But it is three values linked to x/y/z axis. That can be very confusing when you try to make your input.

A better way is to use the inputting-during-operation feature. @ 0:35
https://youtu.be/BFYeWV5eQm8

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General Discussion / Re: New user where to begin?

« Last post by steve on January 23, 2025, 09:57:58 am »

When you select a polygon and move it all the info shows in the manipulator in the bottom screen (and you can move it with numbers)
except the angle.

Change the manipulator orientation to "selection"

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General Discussion / Re: New user where to begin?

« Last post by Noobnvil on January 23, 2025, 12:37:18 am »

Nice...I am going to study the new video's this week.
One thing If it makes sense it is...in my head it does.

When you select a polygon and move it all the info shows in the manipulator in the bottom screen (and you can move it with numbers)
except the angle.it would be nice and maybe even faster to change the angle there as well.
so I am guessing the polygon is at 0 degrees parallel to the grid, I select it, in the manipulator enter 22 degrees and it will rotate to that number.

Tnx!

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General Discussion / Re: New user where to begin?

« Last post by IStonia on January 22, 2025, 11:06:51 pm »

Angle measuring feature is added in the new version.
https://youtu.be/eK0Mwr3DlM4

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News and Updates / Nvil Update Jan 23 2025

« Last post by IStonia on January 22, 2025, 11:01:48 pm »

New Update

https://digitalfossils.com/Download/NVil-Jan-23-25.zip


--Prerequisites : If the application failed to launch and SlimDX is not installed, download/install the CORRECT version(64 or 86(32-bit)) of end user runtime(for slimDX), https://www.digitalfossils.com/Download/SlimDXInstallers.rar
--For installing to run in Linux : https://github.com/ajz3d/lutris-nvil-installation-scripts

Nvil Kick-Start
https://youtu.be/mVRehG-kOQQ

Draw Mesh Kick-Start
https://youtu.be/Yb2iyj5LQoY

Summary of changes:

* Project(Bridge/Conform) and Selfboolean(Union/Split) features are added to polygon extrusion tools.
* Polygon mode > Geometry > Selfboolean > Union/Split. Perform a union/split boolean operation between selected polygons and unselected polygons of the same mesh.
* Some bug fixings.


Thanks!

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General Discussion / Re: New user where to begin?

« Last post by Noobnvil on January 21, 2025, 03:47:29 am »

Thank you for those example...
I am used to cad....

Is there a way to know the angle of the polygon and then rotate another one to a certain degree to match.
When I rotate you can see the degree but where can I input the exact number that I want?
Tnx!

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I found it in the manipulation tab...but after I set it to rotate a certain degree and press enter
it will rotate it but then the number will become zero...so if I come back to it how would I know at what angle it is?

Tnx!

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General Discussion / Re: New user where to begin?

« Last post by steve on January 11, 2025, 07:26:13 pm »

Hi,

one way is to use Guide lines.

pic01
Select the 2 highlighted edges and add guide lines ( Geometry -> Create Guide Line Objects )
pic02
The guide line on the angle face, select it, and move it to the top vertex of the end face.
pic03
Select the bottom edge(s) of that end face, and move along the axis to snap point of guide lines.

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General Discussion / Re: New user where to begin?

« Last post by Noobnvil on January 09, 2025, 04:37:13 am »

Hello and happy new year
I am still going at it and still looking at the videos btw nice video on the tapered bolt.

I am trying to figure out how to match a face angle but not aligning it...but could not figure it out.
attached what I am trying to accomplish tnx!

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News and Updates / Nvil Update Dec 18 2024

« Last post by IStonia on December 18, 2024, 09:41:35 pm »

New Update

https://digitalfossils.com/Download/NVil-Dec-18-24.zip


--Prerequisites : If the application failed to launch and SlimDX is not installed, download/install the CORRECT version(64 or 86(32-bit)) of end user runtime(for slimDX), https://www.digitalfossils.com/Download/SlimDXInstallers.rar
--For installing to run in Linux : https://github.com/ajz3d/lutris-nvil-installation-scripts

Nvil Kick-Start
https://youtu.be/mVRehG-kOQQ

Draw Mesh Kick-Start
https://youtu.be/Yb2iyj5LQoY

Summary of changes:

* Some bug fixings.


Thanks!

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General Discussion / Re: New user where to begin?

« Last post by IStonia on December 16, 2024, 04:01:51 am »

Purpose 1: It is subdivision work flow. Working with much less geometries to build a model. Then collapse it at a certain level of subdivision to get the final model.
Purpose 2: Collapse a model in subdivision to get a particular shape for further modeling process. For example, Create a perfect cub. Create a subdivision  vision(Geometry > Subdivision > Level 3. Now you have a special sphere which you can use as a primitive to create something.

You can use the "Reverse Subd" tool to get back to the original model from a collapsed model. But it is impossible to get back to extract shape of the original model.