Mesh Primitives:

Blender mesh primitives information

Blender extra mesh object information

• Monkey - create Blender mesh object
• Icosphere - create Blender mesh object
• Round Cube - create Blender mesh object, no UVs generated
• Teapot - create Blender mesh object, no UVs generated

Socket Timeout - how long in milliseconds before giving up on receiving a response from Blender. (10 sec default)

UV Tools:

Blender uv tools information

Follow Active Quads - "Starts from the active quad and recursively attaches its neighboring, selected mesh quads to its pre-existing UV quad. Non-quad faces are ignored."

- uses selected faces and active face
- if 1 face selected will process the island/select linked uvs - not true but keep behavior anyway
- more than 1 selected face, process the selected faces
- if no active face set the first selected face to active
- tS active face if it is set must be in the face selection
- to clear active face run set with invalid or empty selection
- note triangles are ignored by the tool

Bevels:

Blender bevel edges information

Blender bevel points information

• Offset Type - OFFSET and ABSOLUTE will match the visual indicator when using the Offset scrubber control.
• Offset - drag the scrubber to get a preview of the bevel
• Bevel - select the points or edges or faces to bevel, drag change the Offset value to see a preview before commiting to the Bevel
• Undo - 4 undos if no material, 12 undos if material

Clean Geometry - bad geometry coming from Blender can give errors and crash trueSpace. This option cleans up the geometry around the bevel before sending the data to trueSpace.

NURBS Curves:

Blender extra curve object information from the Internet Archive

• Ellipse - create Blender curve object
• Polygon - create Blender curve object
• Star - create Blender curve object

Spiral Curves:

Blender extra curve object information from the Internet Archive

• Spiral - create Blender spiral curves

Miscellaneous:

Blender grid fill information

• Grid Fill - "Grid Fill uses a pair of connected edge loops or a single, closed edge loop to fill in a grid that follows the surrounding geometry."
• if choosing a closed selection instead of pairs of edges the number of points must be even around the selection.

Loop Tools - Circle:

Blender loop tools information

web archive - https://sites.google.com/site/bartiuscrouch/looptools

• Loop Tools - Circle - reshapes the selected geometry into a circle shape

Clean Geometry - bad geometry coming from Blender can give errors and crash trueSpace. This option cleans up the geometry around the Loop Tools - Circle before sending the data to trueSpace.

Loop Tools - Bridge:

Blender loop tools information

web archive - https://sites.google.com/site/bartiuscrouch/looptools

• Segments - value of 0 will be automatic
• Loop Tools - Bridge/Loft -
• Loft - do a loft operation instead of a bridge

Clean Geometry - bad geometry coming from Blender can give errors and crash trueSpace. This option cleans up the geometry around the Loop Tools - Bridge/Loft before sending the data to trueSpace.

Loop Tools - Curve:

Blender loop tools information

web archive - https://sites.google.com/site/bartiuscrouch/looptools

• Loop Tools - Curve - only works with vertex selection

Clean Geometry - bad geometry coming from Blender can give errors and crash trueSpace. This option cleans up the geometry around the Loop Tools - Curve before sending the data to trueSpace.

Smart UV:

Blender uv tools information

Smart UV "Examines the angles between the selected faces, cuts them along any sharp edges, then projects each separated group of faces along its average normal and lays it out on the UV map. You can also set up seams for additional cutting."

- smart uv does not require pe mode and works with multi object selection
- edge selections to seams has an effect, but unpredictable
- operates on face selections if any, otherwise all faces

• run smart uv on the selected mesh object ( or on PE face and vertex or edge selections)
• will work on a multiple object selection
• if choose UV Channel 2 and UV Channel 1 does not exist, it will create the UV in channel 1 not channel 2.

This tool can crash tS randomly, save before using it.

Unwrap UV:

Blender uv tools information

Unwrap UV - "Cuts the selected faces along their seams, flattens them, and lays them out on the UV map. Previously existing UV coordinates are overwritten. Useful for organic shapes." s

- responds to face and edge/point selections
- requires point or edge selections
- combining seam and face selections can be a little tricky because similar selected colors, points for seams maybe easier to see if make point size large and convert edge selection

• select edges or points and run unwrap, edge and point selection will transfer as marked seams
• Iterations and No Flip are only used with the Method MINIMUM_STRETCH option
• Fill Holes is for Methods ANGLE_BASED and CONFORMAL only
• if choose UV Channel 2 and UV Channel 1 does not exist, it will create the UV in channel 1 not channel 2.

Pack UV:

Blender uv pack information

Pack UV "The Pack Islands tool can be used to optimize the UV layout by adjusting existing islands to efficiently fill the Texture Space. Based on the options selected, the tool will scale, translate and rotate the islands, ensuring a specified margin exists between them to maximize the usage of the UV space."

• Merge Overlap - should be on for all except special cases as the results are unexpected when disabled