Thanks it's a custom pie menu I did a video on it here. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bX6ydaekpqt4d9E

@@takerefuge3d Thanks - got it set up and working - had been thinking of building at hardware solution ( Macro KeyPad) but this does the trick !

There's a standalone software called autohotpie on github that allows you to make pie menus for any program, it's pretty good but when plasticity got native pie menu I stayed using those instead. I have set up plenty of macro pads and never end up using them as having to move my arm somewhere physically away from my mouse or keyboard breaks my flow. ​@@rchelinewbee300

No but you can import polygon meshes as a reference and you can snap curve points to the vertices. and I have done two videos on converting a polygon mesh into nurbs surfaces one for studio license and one for indy licence.

Hey thank you, Yeah, obviously you can alter things to your tastes afterwards and that may work better for certain quad based objects. In alot of cases were just trying to mitigate the big shading errors as we will be rebaking normal mats but if your low poly is your high poly you want it as good as possible, I did do a tutorial on the whole process early last year and pointed out that you can try the other modes in data transfer. Maybe I can add a toggle for this in a future update.

@takerefuge3d I'm new to your channel so I'll definitely need to explore your other videos further. Played around with a few modifier settings randomly out of curiosity which is how I found those results. Had a feeling it was explored and would be different per model, but just in case I commented my findings :)

​@@Mainman0011yeah I figure most people just want to click a button and be nearly done, the default settings tend to work well with ngon meshes particularly with curved surfaces, bevels and weird transitions, but if all the normals are perpendicular to the face, the option you mentioned can have a slightly better effect. The data transfer modifier is really great I used to use it way back when to fake bevels on hard edges.

Thank you! I hope you find it useful 😊

Ah I think you're referring to the pi menu for delete its another plug in. :)

What version of the plugin are you using? Use version ngone pro 1.4 onwards in for the one click Optimizer that makes a low poly unwraps and packs the uvs. In the latest version it is under the experimental tab.

If you still have problems message me through the store you bought it on

No should be indie aswell but you need 2024.2 or later installed.

This is a great idea for a tutorial! I'll see what I can do!

@@takerefuge3d awesome! Make it so all us who have almost never touched blender before understand 😁

​@@Calzune no worries I'll keep that in mind

Yeah it's really handy when it the scene gets littered with lots of objects

Yeah it can take some tangling with to get things going, your way. It works alot better for organic meshes but a little bit of tinkering it can deal quite well with hart surface objects as well, so though I notice it has trouble with 45° gradients that have boolean holes for some reason.

My pleasure!

This video covers steps for a poly to cad workflow for the indie licence. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4O7e3Ssh7Cof5osi=ME2hthbpgMPZbygz

And thank you for your service!

Good Spotting! Fixed!

Thank you!

In short yes, for this workflow!

You can refine it further, the purpose was to get a cad mesh to be all quads. Without losing form,, depending on use case. This was an example. Hand retopology is going to be the better option in alot of cases. Quad remesher and ngone pro both have operators for controlling density in different parts of your mesh

How does it handle micro fillets and the like, does it create an even topology around the fillets?

It is not correct that MOI has better export, there is a big difference between Quad-CAD surfaces that does not connect in edges and Quad-remeshed surfaces where the loops follow the form. Try putting a Subdivision Surface modifier on the Quad exported mesh from MOI and se how bad it works.

Thanks for the clarification, I was a bit suprised this didn't crop up in all my google searches and that appears to be the reason why

What aspects are you struggling with, the workflow or more 3d modeling in general? Keep at it, knowledge comes with time, start with simple projects, modeling smaller items etc and work your way to more complex objects

One of the best bang for buck 3d packages out there!

Thank You!

I think depending on your use case you can get more out of xnurbs as in some cases you might get better quality surfaces and blends quicker, but in alot of cases it may not be even relevant. I started with the Indy license and upgraded as I saw the use of having the extra tools, either way it's a steal compared to other CAD solutions.

That would be handy in vanilla blender for sure, I use a plugin called zen uv that does this

@ thank you

For a model like this it is absolutely possible. However with more complex hard surface models you'll run into issues in blender that require quite time consuming clean up as you go along, for me this is really painful. I think of plasticity almost as a really over powered hard surface modelling plugin for blender, even though it's standalone software.

Thank you!

Noted

That's fair, I find destructive modeling process allows you to work quickly and sparks my creativity, other people work better parametrically.

@@takerefuge3d yea, i do feel like it got its place though, it's pretty nifty. i will probably use it for some things but if it doesn't have constraints it just can't replace everything.

​@@alkeryn1700absolutely, I think there is plenty of parametric cad software that from what I can tell works a charm, plasticities charm is in its simplicity and speed of iteration. It's not for everyone but I learned modeling in blender which can be parametric or destructive and I always found destructive modeling to be more satisfying. I think if I was trying to design things for physical use rather than games then the benefits of a heavier software package would be more obvious to me.

I'm on studio version, cos it means I've got all the features and can test it beta and experimental features before they are released

Stl is a polygon format plasticity is nurbs if you want to make edits in Plasticity you need To convert it to a format that plasticity understands, or if you have the studio license you can just export as igs with the igs exporter for blender which is a paid add on that I also did a video on

But From your other comments I think you don't need plasticity to make these edits but maybe just blender... Why do you need a nurbs software specifically to edit the object?

@@takerefuge3d First of all many thanks for your kindly replies, secondly i didnt know plasticty is nurbs based software until you wrote, i just need a program which makes changes from original 3D scaned objects , after then when changes finished, i will print them with 3D printer, and i never used CAD programs or other drawing/desinging programs too, i am New in this area, just searching for right program, i have limited budget and looking for simple program, i just find a program which name is ,QuickSurface but very expensive for me, so i decided find other program like QuickSurface, in this manner could you recommend some programs for this

​@@musakoca2684ok so your new. Depending on the changes you want to make, you should Look into blender as it's free. It has tool sets for "retopology", which is recreating the mesh so it's easy to work with, it's much easier to work with quad based topology than triangles in the stl, this is a little time consuming to do and to learn, but it will be a sufficient solution, also if you want to dive a little deeper it also has sculpting tools. Which are also useful depending on the edits you want to make

@@takerefuge3d thanks again many many times for now i am going to go with Blender, are those sculpting tools as you mentioned are freecad, fusion360, rhinocores ?, do you recommend one of those too ?, take care, thanks for help , so much mean too me

You can import an obj or stl to plasticity as a reference. But to make changes you will need to reverse engineer the model from polygons to nurbs here is a video I did on that. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4O7e3Ssh7Cof5osi=vOA3FuMpxZOhbba5 This might be limited depending on the object and you may need to remesh it first to get anything decent.

@@takerefuge3d hi again, what you mean with '' as a referece '' , for ex; i scaned shoe with 3d scanner and import stl. it directly to plasticty right? And then what can i change its height ? Or other changes with its desing (not hi engineer grade detail chages, it can have more tolerance then engineer grade parts tolerances)

​@musakoca2684 you can't directly edit an stl in Plasticity as stl is a polygon bared model, made up of a wire frame, and plasticity models are NURBS models that are based on a mathematical. By reference I mean you can import the stl to use as a guide for rebuilding a new model. If you want to directly edit the stl you're better off using blender

Are you using the latest version of plasticity?

I don't know your exact situation, but double check what you're trying to hollow is actually a solid and not a sheet, this is common problem I run into, if the object isn't too complex you can try run the patch command to solidify it

I haven't used it much at all since I made this video, however it creates PBR (physically based) materials so will be compatible with any render/game engine that is compatible with the PBR workflow which is the majority of modem engines.

In preferences change your measurements to inches and you can change the scale aswell. You can delete it and make anything you like. @LearnEverythingAboutDesign has a really good intro to plasticity video that covers the interface and everything else. But the key binding for scale is "s" on the keyboard

@@takerefuge3d You can change the grid pattern size and change to inches but that has no effect on the size of the workspace or the gigantic box in it.

​@@andys5562 top right you can change the grid size in increments where you toggle grid snapping

On the plasticity website!

@@takerefuge3d operators yes, but not icons!

Maybe ask in the discord

I know right

I'm not an expert but as it's a calculation of some kind it would depend on both the complexity of the model and how fast your computer is. I'm not sure if it's done via CPU or GPU but I noticed surfaces with alot of complexity can take time.

@@takerefuge3d I appreciate the reply What would you say the most complex model you've put through this workflow is, and approx. how long did it take to process?

​​@@hightyda few minutes but as I said it's relative to your machine so you, myself, and someone else are going to have absolutely different experiences depending on their machine, what I would say is expect to wait if you have alot of curvature in your model, and consider why you want convert to nurbs in the first place is it for a purpose, regardless of your machine you'll if you have a reason you'll wait.

I selected the curve and used the patch command, hope that helps!

Thanks for watching, and plasticity has a free trial and it's very addictive!

I'm not sure, I think ask for help in the discord or could be many reasons.

Right click any command to set as favourite

You selected the sew option?

Well I did ask for it!