Remove Spikes in Mesh. Select by longest edge?

Submitted by jininjin on Sat, 2013-06-15 20:06

I haven't found anything on Scriptspot that you can select by edge length. I am trying to delete large spikes in a mesh that were generated from an autoretopo. I think the easiest way is to select long edges based on a threshold. Anyway to do this? I found one by Bobo but the link is dead.....

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Submitted by miauu on Tue, 2013-06-18 02:33.

Select some faces and run the

Select some faces and run the script. It will remove all non quads from the selection, so only quad faces will remains selected.

(
	if selection.count == 1 and classof (curO = selection[1]) == Editable_Poly then
	(
		local selFacesBA = polyop.getFaceSelection curO
		local poGetFaceDeg = polyop.getFaceDeg
		polyop.setFaceSelection curO (for f in selFacesBA where (poGetFaceDeg curO f) == 4 collect f)
		redrawViews()
	)
	else
		messagebox "Select only one Editable Poly object" title:"Invalid Selection"
)

This will remove all quads from the selection, so only the non quads will remains selected:

(
	if selection.count == 1 and classof (curO = selection[1]) == Editable_Poly then
	(
		local selFacesBA = polyop.getFaceSelection curO
		local poGetFaceDeg = polyop.getFaceDeg
		polyop.setFaceSelection curO (for f in selFacesBA where (poGetFaceDeg curO f) != 4 collect f)
		redrawViews()
	)
	else
		messagebox "Select only one Editable Poly object" title:"Invalid Selection"
)

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Submitted by jininjin on Tue, 2013-06-18 05:33.

Thanks again Miauu. This

Thanks again Miauu. This helps alot.

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Submitted by miauu on Sun, 2013-06-16 23:45.

There is a script that allows

There is a script that allows you to select edges by length - miauu's Select Edges By Length.

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Submitted by jininjin on Mon, 2013-06-17 17:18.

Thanks Miauu. This is exactly

Thanks Miauu. This is exactly what I was looking for. Now I just need subtract quads from the selection and I should be good to go.

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Submitted by miauu on Mon, 2013-06-17 23:45.

You wants a script that will

You wants a script that will get selected faces and will remove the quad polygons from the selection, so at the end only tris and n-gons will remains selcted?
I can write this script, but will do it tonight.
Someone else can do it earlier. :)

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