FIVE POINT MESH:

[stumblebum]

selecting five points doesn't always trigger the five point tool. i have to select the five points again and again to trigger the five point tool. do i need to do something different?

 

 

rich

 

PS.

 

using the key pad 1 through 6 to constrain the cp is great.

 

[Stuart Rogers]

selecting five points doesn't always trigger the five point tool. i have to select the five points again and again to trigger the five point tool.

I've been seeing this too. I found that if I hide everything in the model except the five points (and maybe some surrounding points) it seems to greatly improve the chance of getting the five-point button made available. I don't know if it helps, but I also usually rotate the model such that the five point patch is in the plane of the screen.

[cindylyoung]

I've had the same problem but have recently discovered that if you shift-click all five points and then re-shift-click the 1st point, the 5-point patch button will become available-- not every time but it helps.

[KenH]

Disconnecting nearby hooks sometimes helps too.

[Joe Gamblin]

Yeah, I'm working on something right now and they just won't take. The weird thing is that I have matching patches on the other side and I had no problem. Here's a reference if anyone wants to help.

[KenH]

Yeah it's probably the hooks. If not that, it's the weird five point patches at the front. You might have to convert those into two four pointers and two three pointers. Ther'd be less creasing too.

[Kelley]

Maybe this is why the manuals steer us clear of 5-point patches.

[robcat2075]

Disconnect teh hooks going into the 5-pointer first

 

then select all five points

hit the period key twice

the 5-point tool will appear.

use it

 

then reattach hooks into 5-pointers if you have to.

 

looks like bad spline continuity here:

 

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splines should cross each other rather than meet and turn away.