Selection Sets

The Normal Toolkit Selection Sets tab is where the user can manage the components set that will impact some of the tool features such as Process Normals or Fix Weighted Normals. To work properly, these features needs information about your object’s bevels; all of the bevel faces of your object should be added to the Selection Sets beforehand.

  • The Smart Bevel can add your bevel faces to the Normal Toolkit Bevel Set automatically so that you don’t have to worry about managing that yourself.

Managing Sets #

To manage your Selection Sets, you have multiple options to choose from:

  • You can switch between both sets by pressing your MMB on the View Selection Set button.
  • You can switch between both sets by right clicking on the View Selection Set button and click the Switch Set button.
  • You can enable the Extend Selection Sets option to have both Selection Sets available in the interface.

Bevel Set #

The Bevel Set is the main Selection Set in which you should be adding the majority of your bevel faces, like in the example below.

Fillet Set #

The Fillet Set is a optional set that allows to have additional precision on the weighted normals calculation. It should be used on bevel faces where you don’t want two bevels to be sharing the same edge borders, like in the example below.

View Selection Set #

Clicking this button will select every faces from your selected object(s) that are part of the current active Selection Set.

  • The function act as a toggle, so if it is clicked while you have faces selected and it matches exactly the faces that are part of the Selection Set, your selection will turn back to object mode.

Right Click Menu

  • Switch To Fillet/Bevel Set: The current active set is switched between the Bevel and Fillet Set.
  • Triplanar Selection
  • Select Bevel Faces: If at least one bevel node is attached to your object, it will select the faces created by the bevel.
  • Select Similar: The Select Similar tool was added here since it is often convenient to use alongside the Normal Toolkit.

Interface Hotkeys

  • Middle Mouse Click: Switch between Bevel and Fillet Set.
  • Shift + Left Click: Run Select Bevel Faces function.
  • Ctrl + Left Click: Run Select Similar function.

Add #

Add the selected faces to the current Selection Set.

Remove #

Remove the selected faces from the current Selection Set.

Clear #

Remove all faces of the selected object(s) from the current Selection Set.

Triplanar Selection #

The Triplanar Selection selects every faces from the selected object(s) with a orientation above the angle tolerence.

It can be helpful for selecting bevel faces on simple shapes where you cannot use the Select Bevel Faces if they do no longer have their bevel nodes attached.

Settings #

  • Use Normal Toolkit Angle: The Angle Tolerance value will be ignored and the tool will take the tolerance value from the Normal Adjustments Angle of the Normal Toolkit.
  • Set Orientation From Selected Faces: If a face is selected, the default plane orientation will be based on the selected face angle. (Can be useful for an object with freezed rotation)