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You have to manually patch in that geo and smooth it in - it's cumbersome. Please drop it in Suggestions though! cheers brasc

@teknow @briand Alright chaps, after much testing and researching I think I've worked it out... The issue stems from the way the way python reads the "\" in the filepath, "\" actually terminates the string and multiple ones confuses the matter. To resolve this, it couldn't be simpler - add a single "r" in front of the string (I kid you not!) This makes sure python reads the string as raw, so it doesn't process any characters between the " " as anything but readable characters: import c4d #Merges a specified C4D scene file into the current Scene #Change 'fn' to your desired filepath def main(): fn = r'C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\MAXON\CINEMA 4D R17_8DE13DAD\library\scripts\brasco_mt\Quad_Discs.c4d' c4d.documents.MergeDocument(doc, fn, c4d.SCENEFILTER_OBJECTS | c4d.SCENEFILTER_MATERIALS | c4d.SCENEFILTER_DIALOGSALLOWED | c4d.SCENEFILTER_MERGESCENE) c4d.EventAdd() if __name__=='__main__': main() I've once again updated the zip link - can you please let me know if that worked? I realise I've derailed the modelling thread into a scripting sideshow but I learned something new :) cheers brasc

Thanks guys, I'm on R17 (hadn't updated my profile). This is a weird one, are your paths in the Scripts folder? It seems to not like being in a sub-folder of the scripts folder as the executed script. That's the only place I can break it's function. cheers brasc

Apologies, the script had some tab errors, my fault, copy pasting it around had introduced some wrong indents. Fixed in the original link now. cheers brasc

That's exactly the right geo, I just smoothed the centers a bit to keep the polys a bit more even. Here's the one I use: brasco_Quad_Discs.zip I scripted it since I use it a lot and added that as a button in the UI, that's also in the zip. This is a bit tangential to the topic but something useful I learnt recently which is a way to bring in files using a script, it's quite useful for bringing in common elements with a single click: import c4d #Merges a specified C4D scene file into the current Scene #Change 'fn' to your desired filepath def main(): fn = r'C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\MAXON\CINEMA 4D R17_8DE13DAD\library\scripts\brasco_mt\Quad_Discs.c4d' c4d.documents.MergeDocument(doc, fn, c4d.SCENEFILTER_OBJECTS | c4d.SCENEFILTER_MATERIALS | c4d.SCENEFILTER_DIALOGSALLOWED | c4d.SCENEFILTER_MERGESCENE) c4d.EventAdd() if __name__=='__main__': main() cheers, brasc

Thank you, that's very kind of you to say. I was probably around less over the past year due to workload and I also found myself avoiding the cafe during its big redesign and I'm very impressed with where it has ended up now, it's an excellent job. cheers brasc

To avoid nasty poles like that, you'd want to patch in a quad based disc there like this: As you can see that gives a much nicer apex and avoids the shading errors. I do this operation so often that I have a bunch these patches pre-modelled and bring them into any scene that requires one: All you need to make sure is that the patch rim edge count matches the target rim edge count when you Stitch & Sew it in. cheers brasc

Ah right, I see now. Not easily enough is the answer, I'd probably draw the curve extrude and boole it. That is still pretty messy though, but it'd get you started. You could also draw your curve and snap to it whilst using the knife tool, again that's not very clean. Definitely one for the suggestions box cheers brasc

That is just a planar cut, the curve comes from the topology: If you need to rotate the Plane, rotate your Workplane to set the cut angle and set the Knife to World Coords. It'd be much nicer if we had viewport gizmos that indicated the plane, it's on my list of requests. cheers brasc