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Extruding (sweeping) edges?
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Extruding (sweeping) edges? // New Users
Post by tamtam // Nov 15, 2007, 6:21pm
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Hi, i'm back again! I downloaded the Truespace 7.5 trial, and can't find any way of extruding edges. I tried using the sweep tool, but when I click on edges, an error message pops up that says that Truespace cannot sweep the edges (or vertices). I tried another tool that was called Normal Sweep, or Dyna Sweep I think. I tried this tool only on faces, and it works on the faces.
If anyone has a way around this problem, or knows if the Dyna Sweep tool can extrude edges or not, please tell me. This will help me a lot.
Thankyou all for your kind help :)
- tamtam |
Post by prodigy // Nov 15, 2007, 6:46pm
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Extrude edges?? nup far as i know that's no possible in 7.5
And why you need extrude an edge?? just curious.. ;) |
Post by Jack Edwards // Nov 15, 2007, 8:09pm
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You can do it in the full version of 7.51. But only using Model side (TS6.6 legacy) with the PolyTools plugin which is fairly unstable and crashes a lot. |
Post by prodigy // Nov 15, 2007, 8:52pm
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Lolz Jack.. :D |
Post by Jack Edwards // Nov 15, 2007, 9:39pm
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:)
Edge sweep is one of my big feature requests for 7.6. It's really useful for car modeling and building objects poly by poly. Maybe if enough of us ask TomasB nicely and promise him cool Christmas bribes, he'll add it for us? ;) |
Post by prodigy // Nov 15, 2007, 9:56pm
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LOL!!!! :D hahahaha
Btw.. Jack, you know the BIG new?? |
Post by Jack Edwards // Nov 16, 2007, 1:10am
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Yeah, found the e-mail in my inbox around 2:00 AM :(
I hear there's going to be an announcement made today though. ;) |
Post by Steinie // Nov 16, 2007, 2:43am
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I believe Roman mentioned "edge tools" coming in 7.6...
http://forums1.caligari.com/truespace/showpost.php?p=44455&postcount=91 |
Post by prodigy // Nov 16, 2007, 3:08am
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Good catch Bob! :) |
Post by jamesmc // Nov 16, 2007, 4:57am
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Shucks! Edge Tools?
I was hoping for "hedge" tools so I could cheat my way into pro-modeling skills!
Any chance of "hedge" tools getting into version 8? :D |
Post by frootee // Nov 16, 2007, 5:12am
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yeah hedge tools... let's "Hedge" our way into success! haha!
:D
Froo |
Post by tamtam // Nov 16, 2007, 1:24pm
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Hi everyone! I found out a method for extruding the edges on a model, and at the same time, this method will connect two models together by faces, vertices, or edges!
Here are the steps:
1. If, for example, you are making a head for a character, make the back of the head and the face separately.
2. Use the glue as sibling tool, or the glue as child tool to combine the two halves together.
3. Right click on the mesh, click on the polygon bridge/blend tool, click on one edge on one half of the model, then one edge on the other half. Press enter.
Tip: If you would like to, you could use the delete faces tool to take out faces that you don't want (like if you connected a head mesh to a plain, just to get the extrude, you could delete the plain then). This might keep just the extruded edges.
If anyone wants to expand my method, please do share your thoughts and ideas. I hope this will be helpfull to others as well. |
Post by Jack Edwards // Nov 16, 2007, 2:18pm
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The quicky work around is to use the polydraw or add edges tools and cut a new edge near the edge you want to extrude. Then just pull out the outer edge to the new position that you wanted. ;) |
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