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Unwrap Segments: Unwrap the selected segments into 2D Parts.
Select segment by edges
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: (Available in TurboCAD Pro Platinum only)
To activate the tool:
- Activate UV mapping tools
- Select the Image
- Select a TC surface
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- Select “Create segment by
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- edges…”
Figure 1. Start creating segments by edges
After that
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, select a closed edge loop. For this
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there are two possibilities:
- Manual
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- - Select the edge loop manually by clicking one edge after the other.
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- All selected edges should be connected.
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- This means that
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- you can only select
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- those edges which have common vertices with those already selected.
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- Another limitation for each vertex there can only be two edges from the selected edge loop
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- this prevents self-intersections.
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- Mixed manual and automatic. If
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- you have already have selected a few edges
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- , but not closed
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- ,
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- you can try to close edge loop automatically by
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- selecting Close current selected edge
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- loop… The program will try to find the shortest path between the ends of the
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- currently selected edges and connect them.
Figure 2. Automatic closing of the current selected edges
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After creating of the closed
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loop,
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you can create
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a segment by seleting Create segment by selection…
For the each closed edge loop it is possible to create two segments
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; One from internal facets,
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the other from the external facets. The algorithm
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Figure 4. External instead of internal
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will automatically choose one of these domains. If the algorithm choose the opposite domain from the one you wanted select Invert created segment… which will invert the selection to the alternate facets.
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It is important to note, that
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Invert created segment… will only function immediately after using Create segment by selection…
