subdivide+edge selection 2004-01-23 - By richardsan
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thanks for these explanations, elena and patrick...sometimes the
devil's in the detail...
On Friday, January 23, 2004, at 12:09 AM, debadger wrote:
> Years ago, learning 3d in Autocad and in the process learning how to
> build
> aircraft galleys I learned that a triangle is ALWAYS flat. A
> quadrangle can
> be twisted out of flat but a triangle never is, which in a 3D app like
> Carrara (and I'd bet any other) that is using polygons it will get
> confused
> with quadrangles. Those are your source of a lot of problems with
> booleans,
> I bet.
>
> Elena
>
> -- --Original Message-- --
> From: richardsan [mailto:richardsan@(protected)]
> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 6:46 AM
> To: Carrara@(protected)
> Subject: [Carrara] subdivide+edge selection
>
>
> i'd like to hear and learn more about this as well. is C3 able to
> generate quads, instead of triangular polys? the quads i've seen are
> bi~sected by an edge[essentially making them two tris, with a common
> baseline]...right?...i'm not the keenest modeller, i guess you can
> delete that common baseling and get a quad after, seems tedious...is
> there a better way to do this?
>
> also, i've noticed, some inherent workflow problems[?] in the VM.
> [having used other apps], if, say i have edge selection enabled; i
> cannot marquis select edges..they have to be selected one by one?? i
> hope i'm missing some 'step' or preference toleration or something.
>
>
> On Wednesday, January 21, 2004, at 12:40 AM, whkguamusa wrote:
>
>> Pat,
>> from what I can see the answer is yes and no.
>> C3 will triangulate quads with the subdivide command But....
>> You can use the "Tessellate" tool & there is an option that will keep
>> the quads.
>> I don't know too much about the VM, So I could not find a way to
>> marquee or pre-select facets to have the tessilate tool work on more
>> than one facet at a time. Maybe someone who is hot in the VM can jump
>> in and point the way on this.
>>
>> mdc
>>
>>
>>
>> --- In Carrara@(protected), "life3d2000" <patrick.martin@(protected)>
>> wrote:
>>> Can C3 subdivide a quad mesh and retain quads? & is it a smoothed
>>> result?
>>>
>>> Patrick
>>
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