https://www.wings3d.com/forum/ Fri, 01 May 2026 17:47:39 +0000 MyBB https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3198 Tue, 09 Sep 2025 20:05:43 +0000 J. Baker]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3198 https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3194 Tue, 22 Jul 2025 06:40:29 +0000 carloratm]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3194
I am planning to try wings3d in my (little) spare time next month.

My use case is to model small objects I can then produce with wood.

Why Wings3d? Because I love Erlang

I am running wings on Debian.

My question is, where to start learning?

The obvious answer is: https://www.wings3d.com/documentation/us...-contents/

Just wanted to be sure that's the right place and there's no better places to start.

Cheers!
Carlo]]>
I am planning to try wings3d in my (little) spare time next month.

My use case is to model small objects I can then produce with wood.

Why Wings3d? Because I love Erlang

I am running wings on Debian.

My question is, where to start learning?

The obvious answer is: https://www.wings3d.com/documentation/us...-contents/

Just wanted to be sure that's the right place and there's no better places to start.

Cheers!
Carlo]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3184 Wed, 19 Feb 2025 12:34:00 +0000 lennart]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3184 Bigger box over it, but BOLEAN > 'difference' doesn't work. Wat is the best way to make an object inverted / as a mould?]]> Bigger box over it, but BOLEAN > 'difference' doesn't work. Wat is the best way to make an object inverted / as a mould?]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3168 Sun, 06 Oct 2024 15:06:43 +0000 lennart]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3168
How can i fill the gap between these two objects? Tried several options, but none of them seem to work. What is the right way to fill the gap between these two objects?

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How can i fill the gap between these two objects? Tried several options, but none of them seem to work. What is the right way to fill the gap between these two objects?

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I got the general idea and was trying to make it's "hands" look round and removed a couple of edges, which did make it look much better in Wings3D, but when I exported it as an .obj file it didn't work as intended.

I tried googling the problem, and using AI to find a fix but I'm not even sure how exactly could I describe my issue.

Any ideas?

In Wings3D:



In game:



My wings file: https://pixeldrain.com/u/3SH4WNjv]]>
I got the general idea and was trying to make it's "hands" look round and removed a couple of edges, which did make it look much better in Wings3D, but when I exported it as an .obj file it didn't work as intended.

I tried googling the problem, and using AI to find a fix but I'm not even sure how exactly could I describe my issue.

Any ideas?

In Wings3D:



In game:



My wings file: https://pixeldrain.com/u/3SH4WNjv]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3148 Wed, 25 Oct 2023 17:23:57 +0000 Xavier]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3148
I uses to build my projects using Wings 3D...
But its use is too intuitive to fit and simply draw mechanicals parts with the right quotes.

I had to import all sharp from a dedicated CAD program in AI format. (DXF is not implemented) 
For example, an object can be scaled on X axe and the "TAB" key can expend it to a percent value.

Suggestion: ("Scale axis" popup object menu)
In the "TAB" menu, is it possible to fix the target quote to a "mm" value, in addition to the percent value.

Put a "percent" and a "mm" check box in the "TAB" window to fix an object to a precise overall dimension.

Actually, i had to create many overall dimension cubes to fit my object to the right dimension. 

The vertex length can help to get dimensions, but you had to do another cube to check it.

It drives me nuts.
It will easy to scale a box on an axe and type TAB "150mm" to get a box with the 150mm length dimension.
Not ask the unknown "%" value !

We can take two points and expend it to a target point, but you had to create another box to fix the length in "mm".

I like Wings 3D.
It's an excellent free software, and there is a lot of programming work.
It's perfect as is, it's just a little suggestion.

Many thanks to the Wings team for the time you gave us all.
And for allowing us to create our dream projects.]]>
I uses to build my projects using Wings 3D...
But its use is too intuitive to fit and simply draw mechanicals parts with the right quotes.

I had to import all sharp from a dedicated CAD program in AI format. (DXF is not implemented) 
For example, an object can be scaled on X axe and the "TAB" key can expend it to a percent value.

Suggestion: ("Scale axis" popup object menu)
In the "TAB" menu, is it possible to fix the target quote to a "mm" value, in addition to the percent value.

Put a "percent" and a "mm" check box in the "TAB" window to fix an object to a precise overall dimension.

Actually, i had to create many overall dimension cubes to fit my object to the right dimension. 

The vertex length can help to get dimensions, but you had to do another cube to check it.

It drives me nuts.
It will easy to scale a box on an axe and type TAB "150mm" to get a box with the 150mm length dimension.
Not ask the unknown "%" value !

We can take two points and expend it to a target point, but you had to create another box to fix the length in "mm".

I like Wings 3D.
It's an excellent free software, and there is a lot of programming work.
It's perfect as is, it's just a little suggestion.

Many thanks to the Wings team for the time you gave us all.
And for allowing us to create our dream projects.]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3121 Fri, 07 Jul 2023 21:40:08 +0000 ctcalhoun]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3121 https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3117 Sat, 27 May 2023 19:49:11 +0000 mbbmbbmm]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3117
My current workflow is to
-make the simple house form with gable


- (shell)extrude the roof along normals - here is where it gets wonky because of the normals, see picture


- normally I would now just extrude the small sides of the roof all at once to get the overhang but the result turns out crooked because of the uneven first extrusion...
So instead I use an intersect with a temporary plane along each sloping edge of the roof, one by one.





End result:


The workflow is not so terrible and the end result is good. But it is just a little tedious to repeat. Is there a better, faster way to achieve it? I'm quite new to Wings so there might be something simple that I'm missing.
Thank you!]]>
My current workflow is to
-make the simple house form with gable


- (shell)extrude the roof along normals - here is where it gets wonky because of the normals, see picture


- normally I would now just extrude the small sides of the roof all at once to get the overhang but the result turns out crooked because of the uneven first extrusion...
So instead I use an intersect with a temporary plane along each sloping edge of the roof, one by one.





End result:


The workflow is not so terrible and the end result is good. But it is just a little tedious to repeat. Is there a better, faster way to achieve it? I'm quite new to Wings so there might be something simple that I'm missing.
Thank you!]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3112 Thu, 04 May 2023 04:04:49 +0000 MikeJ]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3112
In older versions you used to be able to click the Geometry Window title bar and toggle the visibility of the other windows, but apparently that trick doesn't work any more.]]>
In older versions you used to be able to click the Geometry Window title bar and toggle the visibility of the other windows, but apparently that trick doesn't work any more.]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3110 Wed, 03 May 2023 00:05:53 +0000 ptoing]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3110
The red verts is what I would want to connect and it should create a vert on the edge between them automatically. That is what I am looking for.

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The red verts is what I would want to connect and it should create a vert on the edge between them automatically. That is what I am looking for.

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I followed some tutorials and exported the texture after mapping it, however I must have screwed something up. I messed around with the default material and I guess it overran the UV map I had made? However, opening the UV window with the object selected takes me to the correct map as I made it but I can't get it to show up on the object, it just stays with the edited default material.

A possible solution I found is to select the object, right click on UV map to redo it and trace over the old one which shows up in the window, which wouldn't be unreasonably hard, but I'd rather find a more elegant solution in case I have the same issue later on but in a more complicated fashion.

I'd like to know, is there any other way or do I have to bite the bullet? Also, when I made the UV map I clicked on "Export UV" and got a .eps file. Is it not possible to import this file so it redoes the UV map exactly as it was before?

In the image I attached, the outlined file in the outliner is the texture I am trying to apply.

Thanks in advance.

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I followed some tutorials and exported the texture after mapping it, however I must have screwed something up. I messed around with the default material and I guess it overran the UV map I had made? However, opening the UV window with the object selected takes me to the correct map as I made it but I can't get it to show up on the object, it just stays with the edited default material.

A possible solution I found is to select the object, right click on UV map to redo it and trace over the old one which shows up in the window, which wouldn't be unreasonably hard, but I'd rather find a more elegant solution in case I have the same issue later on but in a more complicated fashion.

I'd like to know, is there any other way or do I have to bite the bullet? Also, when I made the UV map I clicked on "Export UV" and got a .eps file. Is it not possible to import this file so it redoes the UV map exactly as it was before?

In the image I attached, the outlined file in the outliner is the texture I am trying to apply.

Thanks in advance.

]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3098 Sat, 08 Apr 2023 22:12:06 +0000 some_yahoo]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3098 So I moved my Windows main screen to screen 2 to get my Start bar out of my videos.
Loaded up Wings, right-clicked to create a cube, and the context menu comes up on the main screen, not in the middle of the Wings window like it has for 500,000 years.

I need to have this behaviour changed.]]> So I moved my Windows main screen to screen 2 to get my Start bar out of my videos.
Loaded up Wings, right-clicked to create a cube, and the context menu comes up on the main screen, not in the middle of the Wings window like it has for 500,000 years.

I need to have this behaviour changed.]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3087 Fri, 30 Dec 2022 20:40:34 +0000 Bram]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3087
So launch Wings3D, set up the camera pos, coi, fov, (maybe edge colour) and have it import an OBJ and make an image?

I am looking to just replicate the editor view, but automate it from the command line.

Thanks.]]>
So launch Wings3D, set up the camera pos, coi, fov, (maybe edge colour) and have it import an OBJ and make an image?

I am looking to just replicate the editor view, but automate it from the command line.

Thanks.]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3068 Fri, 18 Mar 2022 16:01:03 +0000 KartingKoopa]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3068
In the latest versions of Wings3D, I can no longer dock the UV-editor window into the main screen, it stays afloat and refuses to dock when I move the window around.

Here's what I know:

• I use the Windows 64x version
  
• It functions as normal in releases up to 2.2.6.1
  
• The issue appears in 2.2.7 onwards
  
• Only the UV-editor window refuses to dock, all other windows work normally
  

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In the latest versions of Wings3D, I can no longer dock the UV-editor window into the main screen, it stays afloat and refuses to dock when I move the window around.

Here's what I know:

• I use the Windows 64x version
  
• It functions as normal in releases up to 2.2.6.1
  
• The issue appears in 2.2.7 onwards
  
• Only the UV-editor window refuses to dock, all other windows work normally
  

]]>