if it's a tube then what I wrote in my original post would work fine, select one edgering around the tube first, then select all edgeloops extending from that selection.. I remember rctools used to be able to do that really easily, from what I remember, with xsis native tools you can't do this in an easy way, afaik there's no builtin tool that will take a bunch of edges and select their corresponding edgeloops, you need to manually select each loop one by one, but I could be wrong.
I'd see if you can get rctools working in current builds, it sounds like that would speed things up a lot for you. On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Kris Rivel <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry for the confusion. I have very dense mesh...kind of like a long > twisty tube. I want to select just the edges traveling either along its > vertical axis, or just the ones perpendicular to that...the rings making up > the tube. I was manually selecting edge loops, pulling a big curve from > that, using an addon to pull the subcurves, then a script to put a new thin > tube along each curve...but now I'm tripling the amount of original curves > and wondering if there's a better way to generate this kind of wire mesh. > > Kris > > > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Matt Lind <[email protected]>wrote: > >> If the goal is to simply select a line of edges, then the range selection >> tool can do that. You pick an edge, press ALT, then pick another edge and >> Softimage selects the shortest path between the two edges. If the edges >> are on the same line, then it’s a clean result, otherwise a lot of zig-zags >> will result, which is what I think Kris wants to avoid.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> To answer Kris’s other question, yes a curve can be extracted from a mesh >> via Model > [Create] Curve > Extract from Edges. From ICE or script you’ll >> have to code it yourself by traversing the edge and collecting the vertex >> IDs and positions in the order you want the curve drawn.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> Matt**** >> >> ** ** >> >> ** ** >> >> ** ** >> >> ** ** >> >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto: >> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Andreas Bystrom >> *Sent:* Friday, October 12, 2012 6:53 PM >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* Re: select edges on mesh in one direction**** >> >> ** ** >> >> depends how the mesh is constructed, but sometimes you can simply first >> do a "select edgering" and with that result selected do a "select edgeloop" >> command. >> >> >> **** >> >> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Matt Lind <[email protected]> >> wrote:**** >> >> Define one direction. As in, what is your point of reference for >> defining the direction?**** >> >> **** >> >> **** >> >> Matt**** >> >> **** >> >> **** >> >> **** >> >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto: >> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Kris Rivel >> *Sent:* Friday, October 12, 2012 6:45 PM >> *To:* Softimage List >> *Subject:* select edges on mesh in one direction**** >> >> **** >> >> Is it possible to select edges along a mesh traveling in direction only? >> I'm trying to extract hundreds of edges along a mesh but only want the ones >> running across the surface in one direction. Any scripts or tools that do >> this? Possible to generate curves or strands in direction on a mesh via >> ICE or something? >> >> Kris**** >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Andreas Byström >> Lighting TD - Weta Digital**** >> > > -- Andreas Byström Lighting TD - Weta Digital
