Hey all, this happens also quite often, as a workaround when cap surfaces won’t work I need to loft the missing surface and run the simplify planar faces macro by @Helvetosaur Macro to change a lofted coplanar surface into a trimmed plane?
any ideas why the command won’t apply here?
Hi Hannes - can you post that surface?
-Pascal
maybe the edges are not colinear?
The MergeAllEdges command does not merge edges across kinks.
Kinks are explained here: http://docs.mcneel.com.s3.amazonaws.com/rhino/6/help/en-us/popup_moreinformation/kink.htm
I am also noticing an issue with ‘Merge All Edges’ not working. I have a very simple mass that came from a city file, but it is very clean and everything appears to be rectilinear and straight, but still I can’t get rid of the kinks on some of the straight edges.
I noticed the problem when I was trying to scale from the bottom midface and the midpoint appeared to be off by a little. No matter what I try I cannot get rid of the kink along the bottom edge without manually rebuilding the geometry.
Using ‘Solid Point On’ I can’t see any vertices for the kink, but you can see in the attached image that when I ‘Dup Edges’ and turn on points for curves there are vertices for all the kinks. If I run a ‘Simply Curve’ on those it gets rid of all the kinks. I thought ‘Merge All Edges’ should have the same effect, and it always has for me, but this one will not fix for some reason??
Hello - this bug track item may help -
https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-30014
In short, merging edges is currently not exactly the inverse of splitting edges - the resulting edges still have fully multiple knots at the joins.
-Pascal
Ok, thanks for checking on it. I just extracted and rebuilt those faces and it’s fine now.
Hello - DupBorder, SimplifyCrv on the results, UntrimAll and retrim is a way to get what I think you want.
-Pascal
