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I wont ask my money back, I wont stop using the mac build, I wont ask for a free PC version too. If this is not running then Andrew and only Andrew has to explain to me personally why this is happening. Or even better I'll stop asking any advices. If this thread will come to conclusions like 'poor mac users' or something then I'll start to explain to you why win OSs are, and will always be crap. I started this because a new 3DC is coming. System requirements: Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000 with DirectX9, IE6/7/8 Voxels delete all the stupid SU topology and you can sculpt on this and re topo as you you're right, the only way to use splines modeling in 3DC is to work freely and rebuild the composition to another app from scratch, something like this in blender. You may find useful to model very fast hard surfaces there and import them to voxel room at ~5M.

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The SU pro version has a nice obj exporter, there's also a freeware ruby for the free SU. As for apps like SketchUp, its impossible to produce topology like this. Taro's geometry here is similar to what I did in blender, the obvious way to produce quads. But can you subdivide the topology? When I tried I lost all snapping whatever mode I tried.įor this kind of work a cad style modeler is better of course as we'll do the same job as topology with more accuracy and the half of this as we'll extrude the face. I didn't mean to sit down and work for all this. Without this new algorithm, it is 'Checkmate' as far as voxels are concerned - just too laborious.

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With Andrew's new algorithm, all kinds of new possibilities open up, which can take full advantage of all of the fabulous tools found in the voxel room - also cutting down, drastically, the amount of work needed to be performed in the retopo room. CAD programs do tend to produce bad topology, so, no matter what, you are forced to redo it, somehow, if you want to use 3D-Coat to apply accurate texture details.

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The trouble is deciding how to create the part in the first place. In the retopology room you can use layers, so any new topology is preserved by itself.īut, if you plan to add anything, feature-wise, to the existing model, it makes sense to 'merge' your existing model into the voxel room - add some new voxel features, and use this as a 3 dimensional template to snap your new topo lines to and export this new mesh to the paint room, complete with a normal map which represents the details you added in the voxel room. If you mean using the retopology tools to produce a ring of polygons around the flange, the resulting topology would not end up respecting the sharp edges. Of course, good luck translating the Sketchup Collada format into a readable.obj format. If that same part needed beveled edges, the creation process would be far more laborious in 3D-Coat, while needing only a little more time to be created in Sketchup. The only practical reason for using 3D-Coat for such an operation would be if, firstly, the app supported arrays and snapping - and, secondly, if the auto-topo tools accurately detect edges, (and bevels). About a 30 second operation using Sketchup. In a cheap or free CAD program, like Sketchup, an object like this can be made soooo quickly by dragging out a circle, extruding the thickness, drawing on the top surface 4 more circles, (rotated and copied around the center as an array), and extruded downward to form the holes. True, voxels work with solids, too, but, in 3D-Coat, everything needs to end up as well organized polygons that respect edges - very hard to do with retopo tools.

The case you present is really a job for a CAD application, which work with solid forms, not skins, the format of all the polygon modeling applications. Like trying to build a house with a set of wrenches. This question makes me wonder about just how obsessed we are, (me too), about doing everything with just one application.

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