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After remesh my 3D logo is not smooth on the oval walls

I'm trying to follow this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZmdbRRFTDc&ab_channel=toericht I'm a new user of Blender and I'm really struggling with getting a nice shape for the logo. ...
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Polygon shape with smooth curved face

I am trying to make a polygon shape (hexagon) with a curved face, but I can't smooth out the actual edges of the mesh. . On the left is the mesh before (Shade smooth). On the right is the result I am ...
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Smooth a mesh after knife/bisect tool

I am new to Blender. I got a model from Kaedim/MidJourney, it had a kink, and I wanted to remove it. I tried the knife and bisect tools and they both work. The knived face looks ugly and I want to ...
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How can I avoid Subdivision modifier "oversmoothing" mesh after applying?

I am modeling different parts on my car model but for some reason this wheel cover model gets deformed after applying Subdivision surface modifier. Levels Viewport is set to 2. Before and after ...
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Object is looking deformed when turned on the shade smooth [duplicate]

Is there any way I can fix this? I've watched many videos and read articles, but none of them seems to work.
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How to fix those kind of issues after sculpting?

I'm entirely new to Blender, and I took a break day from courses to practice out few things. I sculpted a cat head starting from a sphere. I continuously used the subdivision surface when needed, the ...
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Deformation apply armature

I would like to apply the pose and the corrective smooth, but the corrective doesn't work if I do it the object has a deformation! How can I solve it? The problem are the feet.
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smood shading turning out odd

I am currently working on a model of a cat. I sculpted the model and then finished making retopology. Now I would like to smood shade it and go make materials, but the smooth shading isn't turning out ...
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Strange Pattern in Cycles Renders Despite Shade Smooth and Auto Smooth

I've been encountering an issue when rendering a metallic object in Blender Cycles, where a strange pattern appears on the reflection of the model. I've tried using shade smooth, auto smooth, and ...
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Smooth figure (.STL) in blender

The first picture is my project in Blender, the second is the same object exported as STL, and reopened in Blender. Do you know why the smoothing is so different? How can I solve the problem? The file ...
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Smoothing artifacts & other problems?

I'm trying to make a smooth edge to a cylinder, but there's some weird artifacting that I guess can be solved with more polygons, but I'm trying to keep the poly-count to a minimum. Additionally on ...
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Shade smooth on flat surfaces?

I have this beveled rectangular prism here and I want it to be shaded smooth so that the bezels are smooth. But it causes the long flat faces to look weird, like they aren't flat. How can I make just ...
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Require assistance to convert an stl file of complex (symmetric) voxel geometry to one with smooth surface in Blender

newb here. I want to smoothen the model shown which comprises of voxels. I tried using a smoothen voxels add on, but it still does not solve my issue. How could I smoothen the mode as accurately as ...
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Blender smooths fbx model at import

I need to display a 3D model on Sketchfab. This 3D model is generated from Autodesk which exports a FBX file. If I import this fbx file directly in Sketchfab, the rendering corresponds to what is in ...
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How do I fix weird looking smoothed faces?

I have been modeling this for a couple hours now and I have yet to retopologize the model but I was messing around with settings under Mesh/Shading/ And all those settings under there. I don't know ...
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shade smooth is not working on eevee and material mode

I have an issue abt shade smooth on eevee mode. It looks good on object mode and cycles render mode. But on eevee mode it looks like not smoothing. There wasn't any problem abt that on yesterday. ...
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How can I remove irregularities in a sculpted character?

I have finished a character and I will now proceed to do the retopology, but I notice that after the sculpting, it has irregularities. Is there any way to remove them? Either by sculpting prior to ...
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Blending 2 layers together when there is a sharp crease that can't be gotten rid of?

My skull after my jaw surgery 3D print is going very well thanks to help I received last week on modeling the plates. Now I need help figuring out what is happing here with my model. I molded together ...
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I need totally smooth shading on my mesh, yet some edges stay sharp whatever I try

I encountered a very frustrating problem in not being able to totally smoothen out my mesh, whatever I try. It seems that for some edges of the mesh, there's a stubborn sharpness data that won't go ...
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Smooth movement with Geometry Nodes

I have made a cannon controlled by the geometry nodes. It has a input value nammed 'moving' that allows: When equals to 0-> it stays still to the inicial position. Rotation Z = 0. When equals to 1-&...
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How to smooth properly?

The problem is that it looks good in Blender: but looks like this in the game or another 3d program: I tried auto smoothing, Subdivision surface but then there were holes in the model. It seems like ...
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How do you make a specific part of an object smooth?

I'm very new to Blender but I didn't know where to ask questions, hopefully this works :). I'm following a tutorial on how to make an apple, and it was all going great until I got to the stem. As you ...
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How can I smooth the curvature of this shape?

I want to smooth the XY curvature of the following solid shape: If I add a subdivision surface modifier it gets smoothed in all directions, so the "steps" along the top edge get smoothed ...
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Can't smooth my object

I'm quite new to Blender. I have a lot of experience with CAD software like Fusion360. But when it comes to detailed modeling, there are limits in this software. So I decided to test Blender and it is ...
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How to make a smooth transitioning hole in a cookie with glazing

Problem I modeled this cookie and only thing left is to put a hole in glazing. I tried doing it by modeling hole object (more images below) with smooth curve and applying boolean modifier but I get ...
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Smooth Brush is making my model less smooth while sculpting

I am sculpting a human head at the moment and haven't had any issues so far with smoothing out certain parts of the model until very recently. I already checked on the falloff of the brush and the ...
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Problem with shade smooth and subdivision

I'm making a character for a video game and when I try to smooth out the shading and use a subdivision so the mesh has a higher quality, this is what results: I'm just getting started with Blender, ...
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Why does Subdivision Surface and smooth turn my mesh into loose triangles?

I did not make this model, so I can't backtrack or anything. I got it from somehwere and was working on it, trying to smooth everything out, but nothing works right. I'm not sure what else I can do or ...
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Parenting Armature and Weights To Mesh Distorts Smooth Shading

When I parent my skeleton to my smooth shaded mesh with automatic weights, the shading distorts. Messing with weight paints also distorts it. Why? How do I fix/prevent this? Here's what the model ...
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How do I keep Smooth Corrective Modifier from affecting face Shape Keys?

I'm using Smooth Corrective Modifier to help keep the joints in the mesh on my model from looking ugly but while that fixed one problem it causes another where the ...
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Mesh breaks when smooth modifier is applied

I have a model of a teddy bear initially created in another software and imported to Blender as an FBX file. It has a triangulated mesh, which is not smooth to the level I wish it to be. When applying ...
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Normal map + shading smooth weird

I have a problem that never happened to me before, will explain it in a simple way : I start a new scene, I remove the basic elements as I always do. I put a new cube + surface modifier subdivision + ...
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How to smoothen out extrusion on a curved surface

Say I have a curved surface with some extruded text on it: What is the best way to remove that extrusion to best approximate the original curve? In other words, transform the above image into the ...
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Why does my smooth mesh becomes unsmooth after I adjust the pose?

Recently I was rigging a character which I extract the mesh from another game as a .obj file. When I imported it into Blender, every things was fine. But after I rigged it with bones and assigned it ...
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How to combine Shade Smooth with the Array Modifier?

I am prototyping a racing game in Unreal 5 and using Blender to build the tracks. The game uses the normals on the track mesh to calculate the orientation of the race car. To make the track in blender ...
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Is there a way to smooth a surface without loosing details

Is there any way to make this wrinkly area smooth without loosing the details. I tried using smooth deform with vertex groups but either it messes up the details or there is no proper output.
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How do I make a messy sculpted surface smooth?

I have recently gotten into using the sculpting tab in Blender. I have always just used the layout tab, manually moving vertices, using modifiers, creating faces and edges, etc... But I have started ...
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Part of the mesh is flat and the other is smooth

I have a mesh which there is a section which is not smooth, but in edited mode I can see it is smooth. (although I have chosen the shade smooth option). I have used used a modifier data transfer, don'...
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How to fix warped faces on mesh caused/made visible by auto smoothing?

Individual faces appear to be warped and form a wrinkle on the mesh when shaded smooth as seen on the second picture. The smooth tool in sculpt mode doesn't fix it, nor does vertex smooth in edit ...
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How to smooth out curved loop cuts of a knife tool?

I am trying to get smooth, EVENLY curved lines for the dark grey and blue stripe materials on the fuselage. I only used shade smooth and auto smooth, and saw the damage/distortion that the subdivision ...
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My donut is not shaded smooth

Blender file https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y51EyPONaHkKN7OexRVOLTltCTImMOIK/view?usp=sharing I'm using the Blender version of 3.3.1
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In Blender 3.3, Object > Shade Smooth turns off Autosmooth. Why and how to disable this unwanted behavior?

Also, they added Shade AutoSmooth... which defaults to a sharpness angle of 30 degrees. So if you manually set the angle to, say, 90, then went Object > Shade Autosmooth, its reverts it to 30 ...
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How to round edges on a Macbook with only trackpad? 3.2

I am new to Blender, but have had no luck finding any answer online as to how I can bevel and round an edge, corner, whatever, with only a trackpad on a Macbook.
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Is there a viable alternative to subdivision surface modifier?

I am having a bit of an issue with the smoothing of my model. I am trying to make a car and for most processes I have used the subdivision surface modifier in recent times. However whilst over a ...
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when I apply the scale, it breaks my shading

when I mirror this object shading looks good, but when I apply the scale shading breaks and I have no idea how to fix it. I already tried recalculating normals. Normals are flipped correctly.
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Quality loss switching from sculpt mode to object mode

I'm not experienced in sculpting and I often run in troubles I'm sure I could avoid easily so it's kinda frustrating haha. Anyway, yesterday I had a problem I never had before, maybe it is because of ...
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Smoothing edges on an Ico Sphere and avoid artifacts when smooth shading

I want to model a smoothed Icosphere (a D20 Dice) but I have artifacts/ unwanted hard edges. You can see the Star shape (*) all around the dice. The triangles appear completely flat, which makes ...
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How can I make this blocky surface smooth?

In the attached pic, I need to make the highlighted areas smooth and spherical. If you look at the top plane of the object, the vertices are arranged in a perfect circle, which I what I want. I've ...
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How do I smooth this cone for 3D printing?

I have a cone that I'm setting up to 3D print: When I import it into Cura, it's very blocky: How can I edit this cone in Blender to give it a nice, smooth, round shape, while leaving the bottom ...
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How can I make these circular edges smoother?

I punched holes into a mesh and applied a solidifier modifier to it. The outside looks smooth but the inner circles look slightly faceted. What would be some strategies to make the inside circles ...
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