Hi, Take the case where you’re drawing a quad in 3D Space, not just on a plane. I still think there needs to be a way to get the fourth point to lie on a plane formed by the first 3 points picked. [image] I would envisage it as an option in 3DFace. I thought Planar would work, but it doesn’t qui…

you can do this with gumbal + ctrl+ drag- [gumball extrude]

Will that work in the context he showed, with a much more irregular form? It looks like it’d require more futzing to get it right. Also, related: in the _Align command, the _toPlane option should either always be a 3point click or there should be a 3point option. Currently the alignment plane can o…

depends on what he’s trying to do… if the goal is to have the quad be planar, a simple extrude works great- you can always align verts, or stitch to connect errant verts.

In principle yeah that kinda does the trick. But if you look at that top right corner vertex of the face you pull out, okay yes presume I want it in that plane but not that location. Maybe it should be closer to the bottom left hand corner point, if I’m really building it out. [image] theoutside…

[image] Jonathan_Hutchinson1: In principle yeah that kinda does the trick Example. Only such actions in SubD modeling are meaningless. Unless you make a flat four-point model. :slightly_smiling_face:

Yep, I second that request! And I think other commands would also benefit from such an InPlane option. Maybe SmartTrack could make something like SmartPlane which takes the last 3 input points (or smart points) for a temporary Cplane? @mikko ?

Yes, definitely - for example the SrfPt (Surface from corner points) could also have this option for 4 point surfaces. It’s not really hard to script, if you input the first three points, they form a plane, it is then possible to constrain the 4th pick to that plane. Just that it needs a proper UI…

Likewise - I did a script which just set the plane after the third point and then reset after running, but I’ve misplaced it.

[image] Jonathan_Hutchinson1: Actually I couldn’t replicate what you did Kyle my end - sorry. click an edge, start dragging it then hold ctrl. drag it where you want it then use an osnap to locate it. stitch to join it into the previous part.

I filed https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-59424 as a wish for AppendFace

In Plane Option for 3DFace

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brian (Brian Gillespie) July 28, 2020, 11:43pm 15

RH-59440 is fixed in the latest WIP

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In Plane Option for 3DFace

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