Minimum Tool Radius Shade Macro?

[johnc4668]

Fellas,

 Looking to see if its possible to radius shade the part, and have the user activate each tool and  have the radius shade update when each tool is activated. I know there's other ways to do this but i think it would cool if this could be pulled off. It would probably need a macro pause function im sure. See attached pic. thanks!

[kukelyk]

Do You mean tool.tipradius, or tool.diameter/2?

[johnc4668]

@kukelyk  sort of. I want to just keep the radius shape up and roll through the tools and activate the tools i want. Right now im just hitting a macro between each tool. Its not a big deal but i was just curious if there was a way. 

[Sean570]

You can do this via a plugin or the API, but that would be a lot of work for just one small feature. If you wanted to you could follow these macro webinars. 

The third advanced video goes through how to create a plugin to adjust the minimum radius shading via a slider. It is not exactly what you want, but gets you kind of close. It just gives you an idea of what you can do with a plugin or the API.

[johnc4668]

@Sean570 thanks for the info, ill dig into this soon!

[kevin.hammond3WX4X]

Hi,

Have a play with the macro attached, it may help, if not feel free to discard.

Use the macro to select tool from list, if it is tip radiused or ball nosed it will set the min radius shade to match tool.

If you develop it further please share with the forum.

swap txt for mac on attached file