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Hiya Patrick,
Thanks for the info! Quick question (if it's possible) - in Amapi, you
couldn't really crease an edge like you can in Carrara's VM - is this
possible (or even necessary) in Hex?
Cheers,
Glen
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Subject: [Carrara] Hexagons secrets...
The following is a quick look at a few features in Hexagon from a user's
point of view after 3 weeks beta testing. Hexagon is as you know is for
polygon modeling. It has an "Amapi feel" to it but is much more
intuitive. To me it is built for maximum speed- it will cut modeling
time considerably with all the new quick ways of doing laborious tasks.
If you think of how Amapi extrusion/ sweep tool is much more power full
than Carrara's. Well there is a new "on the fly" way to extrude/sweep
which allows each section to be instantly scaled, not just
proportionally- but you can constrain it to an axis, not only that but
you can grab the scale tool and nominate the edge to scale from! Each
time you sweep/ extrude you can rotate it "on the fly", or even grab the
rotate tool and set the pivot point. Hexagons new sweep/extrude method
is basically Amapi's on "steroids" or Carrara's on "super steroids"
There has been a lot cool work gone into new "edge tools" These let you
instantly "on the fly" add edge loops, create fillets, reposition edges
etc.
You can now take a smoothed mesh and drop back down to the unsmoothed
mesh.
You cut and paste faces and edges at will (like working with clip art).
There is a new "target weld" tool to weld precisely where you want the
edge or point to end up.
There are some new selection tools which allow fast ways to select
connected edges. One way is called "Paint mode" which allows you to just
swipe your cursor over the points, edges and faces without clicking each
one, one at a time.
You can designate domain areas with different material colours.
Anyway this will give you an idea- but it still can't make the actual
model for you! LOL
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