Hi guys, I just ran a SubDivide test on a quad mesh and it doesn’t smooth the mesh, it just divides the faces and puts the new vertices on the same plane as the old face. So is this by design, or did it loose it’s smoothing abilities along the way through some sort of bug?
Simplest example:
Make a mesh box with 1 face per side and subdivide it.
This is what I get:
In most SubD modelers you always have an option to choose to Subvide Faceted (like shown above), or Subdivide Smooth (meatballing things). We have an equal need for both options. Along with UnSubdivide.
Subd in Rhino is a separate geometry type from mesh
to smooth it you have to use “convert to subd” on subd tab. then you can subdivide it and extract control mesh (if you want to have it as a mesh like in most other software).
Thanks @Normand, I was looking at this YT item: RH-55871 SubDivide: Supports meshes and mesh faces
That was an attempt to put the removed mesh subdivision back to Rhino 7. But since that there have been other changes and discussion I see.
It works well in V6. In V7, the subdivision and smoothing function of this support grid is removed. I also proposed before that it is inconvenient to turn it into a subdivision object for subdivision