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Quite often I come across a mesh where I have a quad I want to triangulate, however upon pressing CtrlT, it triangulates in the opposite direction I want it to. I'm only dealing with a single quad within the entire mesh, so I don't want to use the triangulate modifier here.

Is there an way to have more control when triangulating a single quad within a mesh?

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    $\begingroup$ Ctrl+Shift+T, answer below could be updated. $\endgroup$
    – ideasman42
    Commented Jul 29, 2014 at 5:42

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You can choose Fixed or Fixed alternate in the redo panel after triangulating:

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If you prefer an all keyboard shortcut method, you can press CtrlE, R after triangulating to rotate the edge.

However if you are only triangulating a single quad, you can also select the verts you want to create the edge between and press J:

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Another option that is available is rotate edge. This is available in Mesh->Edges->Rotate Edge or the edges popup menu with CtrlE

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This will rotate any edge so that each end gets moved to the next vertex. You only need to select one edge but if you have two triangles selected it will rotate the edge in the middle.

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Ctrl+Shift+T used to be set to Triangulate alternate but now apparently it is set to fixed while Ctrl+T is set to Beauty. You can go to hotkeys and search Triangulate to change it back to alternate instead. Then you have a direct hotkey for it.

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