Advanced grading workflows

In this section we will go over advanced grading workflows. This is a collection of tips and tricks that we compiled from specific questions from our users, presented to everyone for reference.

Locking object sizes and moving like groups

If you have accessories that remain the same size across the grade but need their position group-graded across the size run, this workflow helps you achieve that quickly.

The initial situation is shown as follows, we are presenting a simplification to focus on the features and not on the design. In this situation we want the circles to remain the same size across the grade but change their position according to a grading group, while the rest of the model will grade normally.

We have two groups: fixed is mapped to the sample size all across the size run, Group groups sizes in pairs. We want to use the latter to move the position of the circles.

Grading center setups

We will create a grading center for each circle and assign them to it. In our example:

• Left circle is assigned to GC_2
• Right circle is assigned to GC_1

Both GC_1 and GC_2 will grade like group fixed. The parent GC for 1 and 2 is GC_5, this is important as we will grade GC_5 like group Group in order to achieve the right movement.

For the sake of demonstration in the above depiction, GC_5 and GC_upper are in different locations but to achieve the correct result, they should be in the same location, as seen below.

If everything is set up correctly, when we grade, we can see that the size of the two circles will not change across the grade and the positions are overlapping on groups of two. We display here the result with the stacking point on GC_1 to better demonstrate how the grading is flowing.

Changing a model size

Sometimes during modeling and grading, you may realize that the created model's size differs from what was originally intended. We explain here how to change the size with ease.

Let's assume that we start with a size 8 sample and we realize that we want to change this to be 8.5.

Suppose we want to retain the current model geometry but update the model to a new sample size. We use the "set as sample size without grading" option from the contextual menu of the grading panel. This prompts you to choose whether to update the measurements, and the new size will then be highlighted as the sample size.