Interactive Triangle Tool Setting

For each tool you can set the shape of the brush, its diameter, the strength of the action, and the smoothness of the action.

The Brush Shape setting defines whether the brush is Round or Square. You may want to choose a square brush when working on models with rectilinear shapes such as smoothing the example Plate.stl model in the top right hand corner.

The Diameter setting defines the width of the brush. The triangles under the brush will be raised or lowered depending on the tool selected.

The Strength setting affects the amount that the triangle node is moved:

• For the Deposit tool and the Carve tool, this sets the height the triangle node is raised or lowered as a percentage of the brush radius.
  
  
• For the Smooth tool and the Erase tool, the Strength sets the amount each node is moved towards the calculated smooth position or from the original position. So if the strength is set to 100, the node is moved to the smooth or original position in one action, at 50 you need to use the tool twice and so on. This allows a gradual blending or undo process.

The Smoothness setting defines how the action is blended out at the edge of the brush. At 0, all triangles under the brush will be raised or lowered equally: there will be no blending at the edge of the brush. At 100, the full strength will only be applied at the centre of the brush and the triangles towards the edge will be blended into the rest of the triangle model.

At the bottom of the dialog box, you can use the Show Deviations From Original area to view how your editing has affected the model. Click here for details.

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Interactive Triangle Editing