https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3077&p=38187#p38187
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Nik
Monday, 07 January 2008, 12:50 AM

Three Points Into A Triangle... How ??
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In a CAD environment, there is a basic 3D tool: identify three points, make triangle, Zap !! Done !!

This is just right for tidying up ragged edges, filling tiny holes etc etc.

How does Wings do it ?? Well, you can select edges and get a triangle half the size of the gap, then another half the size of that gap, and so ad infinitum...

Yeah, neat !! But I want to make a simple triangle from three selected vertices...

That's not too much to ask, surely ?

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Um, took me an hour to find how to look *directly* at part I was working on-- Is this a record ??

---- Added several grim hours later...

IMHO, the object I was trying to edit had been chopped about so much that Wings' connect tools would not work on most of the gaps. In fact, it was so munged that Poser refused to re-import it. Worse, 3DOC declined, too...

Yes, I checked P-> W and W-> P using a couple of cubes, and both routes were okay.

I suspect issue is topological, the difference between solid and surface modellers. I met that in CAD, I know how to deal with it-- Basically, find a simpler set of operations...

In this case, I think I can use Poser's own facet & grouping tools...

D'uh, but I miss the *clarity* of TurboCAD...


