I'm having difficulty keeping track of all the nodes in a model that I'm working on. I've been copying the location of 4 vertices (1 polygon) into a spreadsheet then assign some sort of ID. Is there a better way to organize? Example: Category----Group----ID--X--Y--Z body/top-----poly1----a1--1--0--1 ---------------------------a2--1--1--1 ---------------------------a3--1--2--1 ---------------------------a4--1--3--1
Take a look at the Grand Marshal's jbeam. Each node has a logical, meaningful name which tells you its relative location at a glance. Code: ["f2rr", -0.90, -0.23, 0.23], ["f2r", -0.33, -0.23, 0.23], ["f2l", 0.33, -0.23, 0.23], ["f2ll", 0.90, -0.23, 0.23], ["r4rr", -0.61, 2.71, 0.34], ["r4", 0.0, 2.71, 0.34], ["r4ll", 0.61, 2.71, 0.34], "f" or "r" tells you whether the node is in the front or rear half of the car, "2" denotes the row the node is in, and "rr", "r", "l", and "ll" should be self- explanatory. If you name your nodes in a similar fashion, you won't really need to make spreadsheets to keep track of your jbeam skeleton.
