I have another trick.
- select the polygons to bridge
- delete them
- select one border edge on each side of the bride
- modify > mesh > bridge boundary edges
- turn on "grow selection"
- increase the distance threshold
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From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Grahame Fuller
Posted At: Thursday, October 13, 2005 12:55 PM
Posted To: xsi
Conversation: Bridge Operator acting strange?
Subject: RE: Bridge Operator acting strange?
There's no setting, but there is a workaround which might be preferable to drawing the edges in by hand if your mesh is well aligned with the grid as in the image you posted.
1. Select the polys to bridge and randomize them a small amount in the direction of the bridge, e.g. Y in your image.
2. Bridge.
3. Select the top group ramdomized points and use the numeric Translate box to return them to their original height. Make sure that Transform > Collapse Points for Snapping/Absolute Translation is on.
4. Repeat for the bottom group.
I'll see if there's already a suggestion logged for the behaviour you want, and add one if not.
gray
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From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM]On Behalf Of Thomas Helzle
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 12:18 PM
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: Bridge Operator acting strange?
Yes, just tested it and you're right - I seem to have never noticed it in 4, maybe I had no coplanar meshes there... But now I have lots of them.
Argh. :-(
So there is no setting anywhere to change it to the "proper" behaviour?
Would be cool if this could be added in later versions.
For SubDs, the current ways of the bridge are not very practical...
Thanks,
Thomas Helzle
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 18:02:27 +0200, Grahame Fuller <grahamef(at)Softimage.COM> wrote:
> The same thing happens with a subdivided cube in earlier versions. I'm pretty sure that Bridge has always treated colinear edges as one.
>
> gray
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM]On
> Behalf Of Thomas Helzle
> Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 4:24 PM
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: Re: Bridge Operator acting strange?
>
>
> Simon, your cube example works as expected here, but if I use a 6x6 subdivided cube and bridge for instance an area of 4x2 of opposite sides, I'm back to my problem with a non-subdivided bridge...
> And it is the same after a full- or modelling-only freeze.
> I use bridge a lot and this makes it rather cumbersome.
> Did I overlook something or is this a case for Softimage support to look into?
> Right now I have to draw in my edges by hand :-(
>
> Best regards,
>
> Thomas Helzle
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