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  • Polygon
May 13, 2015, 12:34:39 pm
Both those gifs are cool tools.

Andrei has done a great job of giving everyone the basics and some advanced stuff.
I'll be certainly interested in seeing some of those more obscure tools when you have time to put something together.

There also seems to be a lot of edge and polygon selection tools that I'll have to investigate when I have some time.

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  • Polygon
May 13, 2015, 05:09:53 pm
Are there only two obscure tools or are there more you haven't posted ?

I use many tools in Nvil, some that are possibly not used by many?.

Some I can think of at the moment:-

Curve loop/ space loop (as mentioned)
Loop Tidy (example on that thread I linked to)
Align > Cylindrical / Spherical / To surface
Surface align normal/direction
Edge extend > to plane / to mesh / to workplane
UV deform
Spline modify /Spline surface /Spline polygon /Circularize spline
Guide line objects / Object guide lines (construction lines)
Morph
Lay on


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May 13, 2015, 06:47:18 pm
Are there only two obscure tools or are there more you haven't posted ?

I use many tools in Nvil, some that are possibly not used by many?.

Some I can think of at the moment:-

Curve loop/ space loop (as mentioned)
Loop Tidy (example on that thread I linked to)
Align > Cylindrical / Spherical / To surface
Surface align normal/direction
Edge extend > to plane / to mesh / to workplane
UV deform
Spline modify /Spline surface /Spline polygon /Circularize spline
Guide line objects / Object guide lines (construction lines)
Morph
Lay on

I can frankly say that I don't know how any of these commands work. So if you have more time to spare for creating gifs, I'm sure you would not only help me. How do you figure out this stuff Steve?
One doesn't even find most of these features in Help (not in Search, not in Index), one has no clue what may be the overall purpose, let alone input and command executions sequence – at some point I just give up...
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  • Polygon
May 14, 2015, 08:45:54 am
Are there only two obscure tools or are there more you haven't posted ?

I use many tools in Nvil, some that are possibly not used by many?.

Some I can think of at the moment:-

Curve loop/ space loop (as mentioned)
Loop Tidy (example on that thread I linked to)
Align > Cylindrical / Spherical / To surface
Surface align normal/direction
Edge extend > to plane / to mesh / to workplane
UV deform
Spline modify /Spline surface /Spline polygon /Circularize spline
Guide line objects / Object guide lines (construction lines)
Morph
Lay on

Thanks Steve, thats given me a clue on some useful tools too look for. I looked up Tool Search on them and its reasonably easy to figure out how they work from the explanation in there.

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May 14, 2015, 09:08:52 am

Thanks Steve, thats given me a clue on some useful tools too look for. I looked up Tool Search on them and its reasonably easy to figure out how they work from the explanation in there.

Yeah, tool search indeed works a lot better – thanks.