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Polygonal modeling with QuadFace extension

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Polygonal modeling with QuadFace extension

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- Hi, I'm George Maestri and today is a modeling day. We're going to look at a great plug in called QuadFace Tools. Now this plug in allows you to do a lot of polygonal modeling tasks that you normally wouldn't get in SketchUp and you'd have to go outside to a standard polygonal modeler. Now the extension is called QuadFace Tools. It's by an author called TomTom. It is free, so you can go ahead and install it from the extension warehouse. Now I've already installed this plug in. And when you install it, one of the nice things about it is that it has its' own toolbar. So if we go into view, toolbars, you should find a QuadFace Tools. And we can go ahead and click that on and this is a great way to understand how this works. Now this toolbar allows you to do a number of things. It allows you to select polygons. It also allows you to do things like triangulation as well as smooth and un-smooth polygons. So I have this, a couple of objects here. And they're curved objects. So as you can…

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