Hahhaha 
… the Blender 
Ball is taking over this thread… 
Nniicee…
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Oh yeah, I didn’t use this platform for years, I was even surprised, that my account was still here! 
Thanks for welcoming me back! 
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yeah maybe is time to stop with non related to what this post
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The soccer ball probably needs its own thread, LOL. But it is on topic as we are discussing how Plasticity’s tools can aid the Blender artist interested in hard surface modeling and how that workflow compares to Blender’s native tools and other solutions.
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This is true, but when I posted the soccer ball it was only to highlight that the export of the meshes was excellent and had no defects in the shading, then it became a race to demonstrate that it could be done with other programs, and it went slightly off topic.
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Anyone seen this:
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New Stable release is ready to download, for all license.
Changes :
New commands or sub-commands:
- Square command (xnurbs/studio only)
- Move faces and items via measurements
- Rectangular array faces
- Radial array faces
- Move command supports moving measurements
- Face Unwrap creates a proportional sheet
- Deform solid, sheet, and wire bodies
- Rebuild curve: Rebuild curve with explicit control (degrees and spans)
- Rebuild face/surface: Rebuild surface with explicit control (xnurbs/studio only)
- Reverse command: reverses orientation wire and sheet bodies
Minor changes:
- Offset edge gizmo: New gizmo that resembles the two-sided fillet gizmo
- Draft face: Gizmo allowing offset when planar (non-reference)
- Draft face: Accept (unchanging) reference surface
- Copy/paste inherits material and name
- Alternative-Duplicate faces: inherit name and material
- Text tool: some additional fonts
- Contruction Planes in Outliner
- Bridge vertex/curve has gizmo for continuity
- Touchpad: Use cursor for orbit point
- Autosave named files every X minutes (configurable)
- Outliner: Distinguish meshes and images in the outliner
- Outliner: context menu now has “move selected items to root”
- Outliner context menu: Group selection here & Group at root.
- Measurements panel: Show angle between two planes
- Group command, if all items have same parent, are grouped at that parent
- PolygonCommand: remember last vertexCount
- Measurements/Sidebar: Select faces by surface class
- Groups: Deleting a group moves its children to its parent
- Measurements: Copy to clipboard in user’s preferred units
- Rectangular array: specify distance by extent or spacing . Radial array: specify distance by extent or spacing
- Snaps: Closed polygon center point
- Snaps: Corners of images
- Snaps: Vertices and faces of meshes
- Snaps: Snap points for measurements supporting alignments
- Snaps: Freestyle rotate: parallel/perpendicular
Import/Export:
- 3mf import/export
- SVG import
- STEP import/export supports colors, groups/hierarchy
- OBJ Exports MTL files and UVs
- x_t/x_b import/export preserve colors/names/hierarchy
- .plasticity import with groups and materials and names
Download on GitHub the new, Plasticity Release V24.2.0
Video webm codecs vp9 and opus
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Yey!!! (Character filler)
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Great release, I hope to see more surfacing features in the next 6-12 months 
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Plasticity feels sort of like a cross between Rhino and Sketchup. Is there a way to keep drawn curves locked to a selected face, similar to the pencil tool in Sketchup? I know I could create construction planes etc. I was hoping for a workflow closer to Sketchup. Thank you.
At this time the best way is the use of the new feature deform.
Or the use of the spline with in conjunction of the option knife.
And you can do that.
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The knife option was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.
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