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jayanam / fast-carve

Hardsurface utility Blender addon for fast boolean and bevel operations (it's now JMesh tools : https://github.com/jayanam/jmesh-tools)
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During creation of primitive, the "CTRL+LMB click" step is redundant, and should be removed. #47

Open raindropsfromsky opened 5 years ago

raindropsfromsky commented 5 years ago

The "CTRL+LMB click" step is redundant, and should be removed.

Here is an example of how I use the addon:

My settings are shown below: image

And here is the moment when I finished extruding the polygon. image

As soon as I finish the extrusion (by releasing the LMB), the addon should create the object based on my preferences (shown in the first figure, above.) There is no need to have a separate "CTRL+LMB click" step.

This is how the new Blueprint tool works in the new sculpt branch (by Pablo Dobarro), and it is much faster.

jayanam commented 5 years ago

I agree that Ctrl + Left click is redundant, it can be left click. But extruding with holding the mouse button down and applying when releasing is not a good idea. It is better to start an extrusion - like it is - and finish it with an explicit click - because otherwise you cant for example rotate the view with middle mouse button pressed while extruding.

raindropsfromsky commented 5 years ago

Yes, agree. But then do we need to really rotate the view for a plain extrusion operation?

In any case I have suggested a fast draw mode (#51), where a shape can be created with just three clicks. If that mode is available, the user can choose between this cautious approach and a rapid-fire approach.