Hi im new to Blender and i want to know when im in edit mode if i can copy or cut a selections of polygons faces and paste to another mesh.
Thanks in advance for any help
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Sign up to join this communityHi im new to Blender and i want to know when im in edit mode if i can copy or cut a selections of polygons faces and paste to another mesh.
Thanks in advance for any help
You can't do it using the normal copy and paste functions, but you can do it using a few separate shortcuts/tools:
To 'cut' part of a mesh to a new object:
1. In edit mode, select the parts of the mesh you want to cut.
If you want to copy part of the mesh and not cut it you will need to do step '2', otherwise skip to step '3':
2. Press Shift+D to duplicate the selected faces/edges/verts.
3. Press P and choose Selection from the Separate menu. The selected part of the mesh will now be a separate object but you will still be in edit mode of the original object.
4. Leave edit mode and select the new separate object (which will be on top of the old object).
If you wish to join this into an existing mesh you can continue:
5. Shift select a different existing mesh and press Ctrl+J to join them together.
To extend on Ray Mairlot's answer, Blender 2.7x can't merge UVs. (When merging, it simply replaces the UVs in the active selection with those in the highest priority object)
If you want to preserve the UVs:
Yes, with this add-on: https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Extensions:2.6/Py/Scripts/3D_interaction/CutCopyPaste3D
With CTRL-insert you copy mesh data in edit mode, switch to another object and enter edit mode, and using SHIFT-insert pastes the mesh data.