Questions tagged [wireframe]

Questions about viewing or rendering an object in wireframe. Wireframe is displayed by drawing only the object's edges. A wireframe is usually used to view the topology of an object.

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Blender 2.82a in Texture Paint mode Paint Mask doesn't show wireframe

Hi I am new to blender and really struggling to find answer on this. I am not able to show wireframe while in Texture Paint mode, supposed to be shown in any tutorial. Turning on Paint Mask is not ...
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How to build a Low Poly on a High Poly while being able to see both?

All the view options I can find make it hard to see the low poly mesh and the high poly mesh at the same time. (This is for baking a high poly onto a low poly) Is there something I'm missing? This ...
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Modelling pollen 3d mesh

I am kind of a noob in blender, who's trying to model a grain of pollen for an ai experiment. The pollen grain is this one: And I don't know how to model that random wireframe that overlaps itself in ...
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2.82a wireframe disappears (glitch?)

This has happened to me only in 2.82a: while im in wireframe mode,and i do "Toggle Overlay",part of the wireframe disappears,as you can see in the pictures Is it a glitch,or am i missing some ...
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How to get smooth & low-density wireframe

Hi guys I'm trying to constrcut a web using the wireframe modifier. I hope to get a smooth contour so a subdivision modifier was added before wireframe modifier, and this is the result: However I don'...
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Disappearing wireframe after clicking on green triagle 2.8+

Today I've faced some kind of strange behaviour from blender 2.8. I was working in Viewport Shading mode with x-ray off and geometry>wireframe off. Probably I had activated something because now ...
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Stuck in wireframe

Using blender for the first time, and was just messing around with buttons, I think I clicked one of the physics simulation buttons, and now I'm stuck in this wireframe view. I don't want to make this ...
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Duplicate mesh section and merge

Following up on a question I opened up earlier (Joining more objects breaks fill), I have a mesh produced by repeated application of boolean modifier 'difference'. (This represents a Type VII ...
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I can't see through the reference image in wireframe

I can't see through the reference image in wireframe that view is truly wireframe Is there anyone who knows what happened?
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My UV map is in triangle shape not rectangular

I've seen many videos explaining "Tris to Quads" but it just not work for my mesh. I've tried the "tris to quads" but my mesh would still have the messy UV map instead of the rectangular grid one (as ...
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freestyle vs wireframe viewport

hello kind blender stack exchange folks! does anyone know any tips to make the freestyle match viewport wireframe? I am new to blender, but I found I really like using wireframe mode to create ...
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Unable to create a dashed edges with Freestyle

I am trying to make an object that is rendered in wireframe with dashed edges. So far I am working on a model which is using Freestyle. I have tried a lot of settings but still not achieving what I ...
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Generating wireframes gives deformities

I am trying to convert a .stl model into a wireframe, but it always gives me annoying long lines coming out the side.
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How to do the "light up the wireframe effect"

I want to make an effect similar to the one seen in this music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrZC1Jcv0dw I want an object to be completely black and then animate it's wireframe lighting up. ...
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Can't get my model out of wireframe mode in blender 2.59 after saved the blender file in newer version (blender 2.79)

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 can mod a skin to GTA:SA. I need ...
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Wire with SubSurf doesn't follow surface in Edit mode

How do I smooth the grid along the mesh? I've been looking for the answer all day and I couldn't find anything.
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How to make objects more visible in wireframe mode?

My basic cube looks like this in wireframe mode: It's almost invisible. And I saw others' looks dark and thick: My viewport shading options are exactly the same as his. I know there is a "random" ...
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My mesh is a black wireframe but only on layout mode

My mesh is black and transparent, only on layout mode and I do not know how to change it.
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How do i add faces back into my model

I accidentally deleted all of the faces at some point and i can't bring them back, it looks like wire-frame mode but is not
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Dashed line and Wireframe

I'm trying to render a cube with 2 additional vertical edges on a one of the faces. I use the wireframe modifier for making faces transparent and freestyle for making the dashed edges. The issue is ...
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Object wired instead of solid

In blender 2.8 my object that i try to render looks both in edit and object mode wired, and i can't use smoothen to aussure a plain looking surface. All the other objects around it are behaving ...
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smoothing issue with tris

sometimes when i work with tris or i change the flow of the topology on the z axe i encounter some shading issues with smooth shading, if i decrease the normal shading it gets fixed (10 degrees) but i ...
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Merge Grid Lines into single Mesh [duplicate]

I created this grid for use in a game. Users will use the grid as a guide to add road. I created the mesh by drawing a rectangular plane and performing several arrays. Then I applied the "wireframe" ...
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Blender wireframe material missing some edges

I am trying to create a material to draw a mesh in wireframe mode. Thhe result will the be applied on top of another render, so I want the edges to be painted as black and the rest of the surface to ...
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I am not sure what's happening here [closed]

I can't enter edit mode when this happens, and the material preview becomes weird as well. How do I get out of this?
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Wireframe mode doesn't select everything

I had this feature until I must've clicked on something. But on wireframe mode, when i'm trying to select trough everything, it doesn't..react same way as if it was in solid mode.
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Blender 2.8 render wireframe select specific edges

I would like to render a plank with a notch, as shown below, in wire-frame mode. It should only show the outer edges, means I would like to not show the edges highlighted with the white arrows. Is ...
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How to render surface divisions for subsurface modifier? [duplicate]

I want to render the outline of faces as shown in the below image to show the divisions of panels. How to do this in Blender?
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Accidentally enabled wireframe display, can't disable it

I accidentally hit something on my keyboard and now I have these wireframe lines messing up my viewport. Hitting Undo a bunch of times didn't fix the problem. How do I get these lines out of my ...
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Export a Obj with a wireframe material

I would like to export an obj with a wireframe material (model with wireframe lines). I don't want to render it as an image and I don't want to use the wireframe modifier. The Modifier would be the ...
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Can't enter wired weight paint in 2.81

I can't go to wired weight paint mode, i want to weight paint in wired mode instead of solid, but it wont let me go there, it goes full wired instead of weight paint mode.
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Wireframe of top and bottom caps on cylinder

I have a vertical cylinder and I want a wireframe on just the horizontal circular outlines around the top and bottom caps. However, when I apply the wireframe modifier, it wireframes not just these, ...
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Wireframe modifier with intersection "nodes"

I want to learn how to add objects (in this case spheres) automatically at all the intersections of a wireframe modifier on an object. I'm pretty new to Blender and wanting to use it to create some ...
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How to set wireframe line width in Blender 2.8?

I must have accidentally changed a setting that causes wireframe lines to be unrecognizably thin. When I load factory settings, everything is back to normal. However, I would like to keep my own ...
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Subdivide all edges without creating new faces before applying wireframe modifier

I'm trying to model an object with a curvature, smoothen the curvature and turn it into a triangular grid. My current attempt is to triangulate, wireframe and then subdivide the object: Unfortunately,...
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Texture paint with face selection masking now shows wireframe

So by default if you hide parts of the mesh and go into Texture paint mode and turn on Face Selection Masking the parts are hidden and there is no wireframe. I toggled something so it shows up now and ...
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Problem: Wireframe on object with modifiers, autosmooth problem

I have Blender 2.8 and I want to ask two questions. I am trying make simple model of "sci-fi bulldozer". Q.1 - Is available to turn off wireframe on objects with modifiers? If i turn off wireframe (...
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Why does the mesh look complicated when I import the SVG file? [duplicate]

I think there is some conversion error when importing SVG into blender. As you can see in the picture, the mesh is complex, so I think, it's hard to make a material. is there a way to remove the dirty ...
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Blender 2.8 Selection issue in Edit mode

Problem with selecting multiple vertices/edges in edit mode. When i want to select vertices one by one or using box select/ lasso select etc. blender behaves like in wireframe or x-ray mode. It grabs ...
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Boolean with wireframe on mesh

I have a mesh, then I copy the mesh and put the wireframe modifier on it. Then I select my original mesh and set boolean modifier with the wireframed mesh with the "difference" option. I then hide the ...
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Mesh only shows in wireframe in Edit mode

My mesh only shows up as wireframe in Edit mode, no matter which mode I am in. If I am in solid view it just hides my mirror and stays wireframe. I've looked at other posts where the maximum draw type ...
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How Do I Make A Trace Effect Similar to Tron: Legacy Light Cycle Scene

I am trying to make an effect similar to the effect in Tron: Legacy in the light cycle scene. I am aiming for the effect found from 0:04 through 0:12 in the video I linked. I feel like using a ...
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Remap wires or simplify triangles?

I'm working on a quick project for work where I need to turn an STEP file into an FBX for Blender, which I have done... However, now that it's in Blender I'm noticing some problems with its wireframe ...
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Create wireframe for 3D LED lamp? [duplicate]

I am new to blender and have a question on how to import a stl file and then edit it's wireframe so that it can be laser engraved on acrylic. Similar to to photo below, how can I adjust x,y,z axis ...
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How do I achieve this sort of graph wireframe effect in my 3D objects? Blender 2.8

I want to achieve this cool translucent see-through effect with a graph wireframe background in my 3D objects as shown in the images below. How do I do this? I have regular low poly objects with ...
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Blender 2.8 Wireframe Mode: show only visible Vertices

As you see the back vertices are visible. I want them to be hidden as you would expect.
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How to do line animations that transform into 3d models?

Dear Blender community, I'm a 3D artist specialising in 3D modeling and Architecture. For my upcoming architectural 3D films I need artistic constructional animations but I have no idea where to ...
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How to get better rigging view

I was practicing rigging. So I picked up a model from internet and started rigging but I can't see the armature through hand. After enabling X-ray armature can be seen, but only in object mode, when ...
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Animate wireframe slider Blender 2.8

Is it possible to animate the wireframe slider in the viewport overlays using Python?
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Selecting part does not seem on blender. No wireframe edges

I am using blender 2.8 as you can see on the picture. There was an issue with evee render. Blender was crashing. After that, I reinstalled driver then it ran well. But in edit mode, I can see any ...
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