I am trying to inset a face with 12 edges, however when i do so, i get weird geometry.
What am i doing wrong ?
See pic
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$\begingroup$ Seems like you accidentally lock the z transform in inset operation $\endgroup$ – HikariTW Jul 26 '19 at 12:20
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Apply scale with CTRL+A before the insect face
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$\begingroup$ i am trying. but doesnt seem to make a difference $\endgroup$ – Rachquiat Jul 26 '19 at 13:06
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Its diffcult to tell from the underlying mesh what you have. It looks like this:
If that is correct then when you inset faces I I get this
However, the image with the green arrows has this:
which looks like different topology.
If you can show it before the inset faces and also check for duplicates by doing a merge by distance AltM
also show the values you used on the inset faces panel after the operation
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$\begingroup$ thank you for your reply, this is how it looks before i insert faces. imgur.com/a/u87zqrr $\endgroup$ – Rachquiat Jul 26 '19 at 12:49
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It could be this: (reading left to right, top to bottom)
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- Circle, as created
- Scaled in Object mode, 0.5 in Y, and CtrlA scale applied This is now the 'true mesh'.
- Scaled in Object mode, by 2 in Y. It looks like a circle mesh. But it isn't. It's an oval mesh with an object-level transformation matrix, which scales it in Y.
- Inset. The inset operates on the underlying mesh (2), insetting it evenly, and then the object-level transform scales it in Y, which makes it uneven.
In other words, you might have to apply the scale of your object.
answered Jul 26 '19 at 13:04
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$\begingroup$ thanks for your reply, however i created a cylinder with 12 vertices via Mesh > Cylinder > Ngon cap, just like the guy in this tutorial did youtu.be/WFzIbz2FN28?t=447 $\endgroup$ – Rachquiat Jul 26 '19 at 13:10
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$\begingroup$ @Rachquiat OK.. could be wrong.. in Object mode, just hit N to bring up the Properties region, 'Item' tab, 'Transform' panel, and confirm the scale is 1 in X,Y and Z. $\endgroup$ – Robin Betts Jul 26 '19 at 13:18
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$\begingroup$ thank you very much! that was the problem. i found that my object deformed because it was grouped with the object above it (i think becuase i used the curser to draw from that object). gracias!!! $\endgroup$ – Rachquiat Jul 26 '19 at 13:38
