I wanted a way to make tangent edges really light in illustrations without throwing them out entirely, so I made the attached script which gives all tangent edges their own style so that they end up on their own layer when Layer > From style is set in the export options:



It also hides seam edges, which doesn't affect illustration output since that already ignores seams, but it makes what shows up in the viewport closer to what the illustration export will look like.



installation instructions here

Jan 6, 2023 Edit: new version that is fully undoable, but requires hitting Undo twice

Hi Peer,

An interesting script and a nice way of illustrating how and what it does!

--Larry

Thanks Larry!

A very useful script!

Thanks a lot :)

Glad to hear it Marco :)

Excellent! I just discovered this today. I was doing this manually. THANKS

It's not the same result that this old "one line" ? (by Max Smirnov) except the layers...
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=7912.4
(not re-tested :)

I appreciate it Zooen!

Pilou: Max's script that you linked exports to STEP and then imports the STEP back in. For curves, that merges the curve segments together which means that extruding the curve will only have 1 seam. But, I don't think Max's script has any effect on surfaces or solids.

This plugin doesn't actually change geometry. It just assigns tangent edges to a new style and hides seam edges. It's basically automating what you would do if you selected tangent edges one at a time and assigned them to a style and if you then selected seam edges one at a time and did Edit > Hide.

- Peer

Thx for the infos and precisions!

Thank you, just found this, looks very useful in certain circumstances

-James Elliott

Here are three presentations:
1- All edges are hidden (aesthetically, I don't really like it)
2- All edges are visible
3- I control the tangent edges and seam edges easily and quickly with the help of "tangentStyler.js" and type and style browser. For a result that suits me aesthetically for a presentation or a technical document.