Knife Modeling Command

Helper

On 10/11/2014 at 07:58, xxxxxxxx wrote:

I'm using SendModelingCommand() to apply the Knife Tool to some objects. But it does not seem like the
modeling command supports all the options the actual Knife Tool does. For instance, I can not activate the
generation of N-Gons, only cutting visible polygons or any but the "Line" mode.

Check out the scene here. You can move the "Cut_Plane" around to change the cut position, and at some
positions it creats NGons. Even if you activate the "NGons" option, it still creates NGons.

The code I use to cut the object is

def cut(obj, p1, p2, n1, n2, options={}) :
    data = c4d.BaseContainer()
    data.SetVector(c4d.MDATA_KNIFE_P1, p1)
    data.SetVector(c4d.MDATA_KNIFE_P2, p2)
    data.SetVector(c4d.MDATA_KNIFE_V1, n1)
    data.SetVector(c4d.MDATA_KNIFE_V2, n2)
    data.SetBool(c4d.MDATA_KNIFE_NGONS, bool(options.get('ngons')))
    data.SetBool(c4d.MDATA_KNIFE_VISIBLEONLY, bool(options.get('visible_only')))
    c4d.utils.SendModelingCommand(
        c4d.MCOMMAND_KNIFE, [obj], bc=data, doc=obj.GetDocument())

Can I enabled NGons and Visible Only somehow?

Thanks
Niklas

Edit : By the way, here's a nice post from Yannick with details about cutting.

Helper

On 11/11/2014 at 05:46, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hello,

you are using the Knife command (MCOMMAND_KNIFE). The parameters you want to enable are parameters of the Knife tool (ID_MODELING_KNIFE_TOOL). Unfortunately this tool does not support the usage of SendModellingCommand. The docs will be updated.

Best wishes,
Sebastian

Helper

On 13/11/2014 at 00:33, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi Sebastian, thanks for the reply.
Since the prefix of the symbols that need to be used (P1, P2, V1, V2),
is the same as the other knife tool symbols, I thought it might work
somehow. Unfortunate it does not

Best
Niklas