Man Friday's Meshgrabber: how to lock some faces so they don't move?

lamoid_5f20d3e469

Man Friday's mesh grapper is an essential tool. But I cannot figure out how to exclude some polygons so they don't move when inside the sphere of the tool. E.g. I'd like to tack down (lock out from moving) all the polygons outside the boundary of a compact region of a mesh.Then I'd like to grab one polygon in the interior of the region and pull on it with the following result: The polygons on the boundary and exteropr to the region don't move at all. The polygons in the region are all displaced but deform smoothly outward from the grab point to the bounday, where none of them are displaced.

I tried using the geometry editor to hide the polygons outside the region. But that had no effect. They moved if they were in the sphere of interest whether or not they were invisible. Then I used the geometry editor tool to lock all the polygons outside the region. No matter. They all moved.

Is there any way to do what I want with mesh grabber? Any other way?

Richard Haseltine

Rather than start a new thread have a look at the PA's thread and perhaps ask questions there is there are not already sufficient answers:

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/372546/released-manfriday-s-mesh-grabber-commercial#latest
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/406786/released-rotations-add-on-for-manfriday-s-mesh-grabber-commercial#latest

lamoid_5f20d3e469

Thank you, Richard, for the links. I could not find the relevant message in that thread. The Daz forum search engine is not very good -- or I do not know how to use it!