Cheers Michael,

Enjoy the rest of your vacation.

Hi Tony, thanks for posting this very clear bug report and the example file for this sphere pole problem!

This was a bug with dealing with the surface normal calculation in that pole area, in certain circumstances.

The bug involved some numeric precision stuff, and actually in the current Jan-19 beta if you move this object to the world origin (reset from the custom cplane that is currently set back to the world one to get to world 0,0,0), it will actually prevent it from happening.

That's why it did not replicate when you tried drawing a sphere in a completely new file, because a completely new file does not have that custom cplane in it. So those spheres were closer to the world origin and when they were it happened to avoid the problem.


But I've fixed this up for the next v2 beta so that it will work properly in its current location and not get those weird wrinkles in that pole area.


- Michael

Thanks Michael,

I've gone back to the Nov-21 beta for the time being as that doesn't seem to have the problem.

Will you be able to have another beta out before the Nov-21 one expires on Feb 21?

Hi Tony,

> I've gone back to the Nov-21 beta for the time being
> as that doesn't seem to have the problem.

It has the same problem only in the display mesh, but not the export mesh.


> Will you be able to have another beta out before the
> Nov-21 one expires on Feb 21?

I think so.


- Michael

Thanks Michael,

>>It has the same problem only in the display mesh, but not the export mesh

Yes, I noticed that, but the target is modo so it's the export I was needing.


>> I think so.

I hope so :-)

Though, is the export mesher in V1.0 the same as that in the Nov-21 beta. Could I model in the Jan beta then open and export from V1?

Hi Tony,

> Though, is the export mesher in V1.0 the same as that
> in the Nov-21 beta.

It's almost the same, just a couple of bug fixes are the only difference such as the "Avoid smaller than" setting did not work completely properly in v1.


> Could I model in the Jan beta then open and export from V1?

Yeah I think that would most likely work.

- Michael

>> Yeah I think that would most likely work.

Cheers, still hopeful for a new one first :-)