Questions tagged [mesh]
A mesh is a collection of vertices, edges, (composed of a connection between two vertices), and faces (composed of 3 or more connected edges). Meshes are the most commonly used object type in Blender.
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Add different materials to different parts of a mesh?
How do you add more than one material to a mesh?
I have tried adding two materials to the object, and then assigning one of the materials to a vertex-group, but I could not find a place to assign it....
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Why are some faces in my mesh darker?
While rendering a mesh with smooth shading on, I get a dark region/shadow on certain faces.
The effect is more evident when smooth shading is applied to a mesh containing ngons, with the ngons turning ...
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Heat Weighting: Failed to find solution for one or more bones
I cant figure out why I get problems rigging this mesh.
I get an error stating
Bone Heat Weighting: Failed to find solution for one or more bones
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The Boolean modifier is not working
I'm trying to model an M16, but it's not going so well when it comes to the magazine of the weapon.
Next to the magazine is a mesh. I want to cut holes in the mag with that mesh. But the magazine ...
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Splitting pieces of a mesh into a new object
I've just made a set of armor by using a male body mesh model I downloaded and selecting certain faces from the model and duplicating them to create viable armor pieces.
Since the pieces are just ...
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How to smooth shade an object while retaining hard edges?
I frequently come to the problem of having a mesh with parts I would like to render smooth and "hard" edges connecting them.
How can I set the mesh to show the sharp edges but render everything else ...
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Shadows along edges of mesh in 3D View
I have recently started using blender and one of the models I'm working on has dark shadows along edges. I started this model from scratch. I can't remember them being there when I first started the ...
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Why do the measurements of this object seem erroneous?
I just found out about the Mesh Display : Length feature in the "N" panel (thanks to this seemingly-migratable question) that allows one to measure the length of a face or vertice.
But my first ...
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Why can't I transform faces, edges, or vertices without transforming the whole object? [duplicate]
My problem is that I sometimes lose the ability to independently translate or otherwise transform any parts of a single mesh. If I try, for example, to just translate several faces, edges, or vertices,...
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Eliminating edges connecting islands
I'm working on a control station that has buttons. It is a continuous single mesh model. That means, I don't want to create buttons and other details separated from the main mesh, but as you can see I ...
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When should N-Gons be used, and when shouldn't they?
Support for N-Gons (polygons consisting of more than 4 vertices) has been in Blender for a while now, but many of us still may not know when to use them, and how to do so effectively.
In what ...
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Why are the longer edges being beveled more?
I'll preface this by saying I'm very new to Blender - I'm trying to put a bevel on an edge, looks something like this:
As you can see, the vertical side is much longer than the horizontal side. When ...
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How to cut an object along a curve?
I want to divide this model into separate pieces to prepare it for the next stage of a project. The divide needs to be made down a curved line (which I hope is visible in picture).
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I figured out ...
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How can I duplicate a mesh along a curve?
I want to outline a curve in the form of text with a mesh (UV-sphere, cube etc.). How can I do that while saving mesh geometry without using the Curve modifier?
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How to approach the modeling of duct work, piping, wiring?
I'm wondering how to approach duct work, piping, and wiring?
In the past, I have used the spin tool to make corners, but I find it very cumbersome.
How do you do duct work and piping? I have seen ...
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How can I add vertices to intersection of two edges?
I need to put a point at the intersection of two edges. Below is a picture with red circles around where I need points to be placed.
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How can I recreate geometry using a photograph?
I am trying to change the floor covering using a picture. How can I define the floor?
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Is there a way to fill the area between two circles?
There's a way to fill with faces only the area between the larger circle and the the smaller one?
I mean.. It's a wheel and I'm trying to fill the rubber part of it.
Using the fill function F it ...
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Why does subsurf modifier cause weird deformation at the end of a cylinder?
My problem is simple. I think that the strange deformations on the top are there because there are so many vertices in one face. How do I fix this while maintaining nice topology?
Although I ...
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Cutting a circular hole in a hollow cylinder without distorting the cylinder
Whenever I try to cut out a circular hole in either a cylinder or sphere the polygons around the circular hole always have distorted normals after smoothing. Is there anyway to fix this. I've tried ...
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Can't find the palette to alter new objects
When you add a new object into the blender scene, normally on the tool shelf a window will become available where you can put in the objects size or number of vertices etc.
These options:
For what-...
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Wrap curve around sphere
I couldn't find this anywhere, which is really strange, but I'm trying to wrap a curve, imported from a .svg made with a vector image program around a sphere to create the Earth.
Basically, this is ...
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How can I make a hexagonal grill?
How would I be able to create a grill of sorts found on the front of some computer cases such as this one
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Add the Same Modifier to Multiple Objects at Once?
Is it possible to add a modifier to more than one mesh at once?
I have a lot of unique objects, and I want to set a subdivide modifier to them, would I have to do each one individually?
I have ...
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How to make a bevel on text
How can I make a bevel, like in the "Gibson," for my personal inscription?
Is there an automatic method to do so?
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Model a simple 3D spiral shape?
I need to model a simple spiral shape. I imagine the best way to do this is with curves, but I am unsure how to create a perfect spiral shape with curves. What's the best/easiest way to make a spiral ...
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Is there an unsubdivide function in Blender?
I am wondering if there is a modifier or tool that will essentially undo a subsurf or subdivide command.
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How are vertex indices determined?
How does the program decide what indices to assign to vertices? If you create a primitive, are the indices generated randomly, or by some base primitive setting? If you extrude new vertices, will they ...
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Edit Mode Transparent Objects
I changed my Blender Units to Metric System, but when I'm building things, my meshes are transparent, i.e. I can see through faces like in wireframe even though my wireframe is turned off. All faces ...
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How can I animate a mesh moving in a spiral fashion?
I want to animate a paper as it's being tightly rolled. I've done some research and seen that using the spiral add on might be advantageous, but I haven't found anything relating specifically to my ...
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How can I morph a flat plane to be a flat cirlce?
So I'm making a 2d animation in blender, using the z space as layers, and the camera is in orthographic view.
I'm trying to morph a square plane to be a flat circle, but I have no idea how to even ...
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Getting "experimental" true displacement to work
I have been trying to achieve a true mesh displacement on meshes for quite some time, without ever getting it to work.
If I understand it correctly, this experimental feature would allow me to easily ...
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Is there a way to unfold a mesh?
Is there a way to take a mesh, cut it with seams or sharp edges and flatten it, so that the faces stay the same shape and size?
Making paper models is one aspect, where you could use that technique.
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Can't get my model out of wireframe mode
I'm new to Blender and this site, so I apologize in advance if I'm not following any of the proper etiquette. I'm no artist, but I'm trying to learn Blender so that I have some programmer art for me ...
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Finding vertices in a Vertex Group using Blender's Python API
Is there an easy way to get the vertices in a vertex group? The only way I've found is pretty brute-force - e.g., to find the vertices of object obs[i] in group "e"...
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How can I select part of a mesh and make it seperate?
I want to make the teeth a separate child object from the mouth. I want to know the best way to do this.
I have tried going into edit mode with Tab and trying to select all the vertices but that ...
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Text on a balloon
I want to create an image like below, so a balloon with text on it.
I have been googling for ideas (text, sphere, ....) and came on this earlier question. So I tried Shrinkwrap and Cast modifier.
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How to flatten a non-planar face to a targeted plane?
Let's take a non-planar quad here for a simple example, how to only move one vertex on it, to finally make it planar while keeping the other three vertices still?
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display face normal direction in blender 2.8
How can I know if the normals of an object are flipped or not? Because in version 2.8 both normals have the same color and I can't identify if it's a flipped normal, unlike the previous versions where ...
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How do I fix a boolean/bisected surface edge?
I am trying to slice up my models using the Boolean modifier.
After applying the modifier on my smooth mesh, I get the expected result, a flat dissection to separate my mesh into two.
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Straighten Vertices Along a Line
On a line, I need to line up the bottom vertex points in relation to a top reference vertex point. How could I reset the X Y and Z coordinates of these vertex points to essentially line them up all ...
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How to make all polygons into triangles
I need to create test file for my program. But it only accepts polygons with 3 vertices - triangles as input. How can I convert all polygons of some object into triangles?
I know how to select all ...
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Fill cylinder cap with quads
Is there any way of converting the triangle fan found on a cylinder cap into quads.
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How to find the number of loose parts with Blender's Python API?
I want to find out how many loose parts a mesh has using Python, i.e. write a function that takes a mesh object as an argument and returns an int. So far I haven't found a way to access this ...
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What are the colored/highlighted edges in edit mode?
There are red and pink edges on my mesh.
What do these colored edges mean? How can I use them?
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How to find if a point is inside a mesh?
I need a python script that would help me determine if a point is inside a cylindrical mesh.
I tried the .pointInside(point, selected_all=False) but it is deprecated in the newer versions of blender ...
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How to make all quads or ngons on your mesh planar (2d)?
I want the quads in my mesh to be planar, or flat, that is, the 4 points of the quad could all be on the same plane. Or in other words, they need only x and y values to describe their "local" position....
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How to create a circular shaped grid, similar to a manhole cover
I’m trying to create a circular shaped grid, similar to the one in the pic. That’s my first attempt, created by arranging several cylinders with an Array modifier and then cutting the holes via the ...
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Missing objects when opening old file in blender 2.8
I just got a updated to blender 2.8 and my objects that were in hidden layers are gone now, the collection layer tells me that they are in the scene but I cant unhide them also the collection is ...
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How to intersect objects and delete leftover internal planes?
I'm trying to find a simple way to create vertices where two objects intersect and delete the leftover internal planes + then join the meshes so that I have one hollow mesh to sculpt.
The reason I ...
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