Summary of Ways to Create Links

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‌Summary of Ways to Create Links

As a recap, here are some different operations that create links, as found mostly on the Linking submenu of the perspective right-click menu:

 The Add Card operation creates a link for each tracker used to determine the plane of the card; each link is a composite link between the tracker and three corners of the card.

 Assemble Mesh and Convert to Mesh create a simple link between each tracker and its corresponding vertex.

 Add Link and Align adds a simple link for the first two trackers/vertices, and adds a composite link between the third tracker and the three vertices.

 Add Links to Selected creates a simple link between the selected tracker and vertex.

This last operation comes in three flavors. If one tracker and several vertices are selected, a link is created between the tracker and each vertex. If only several trackers are selected, no vertices, then a link is created for each tracker to each vertex that is already at the same location, as seen in the image. If only vertices are selected, then each one is matched with the nearest tracker that encloses it, and if the tracker is solved, the vertex location is updated to be at that exact same location. The second and third methods are intended for re-establishing links. Note that each apparent vertex often consists of several vertices with different normals or UV coordinates at the same location.

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