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How can I fill this without filling the holes?
Try AltF instead of F (if you want to simplify the topology afterwards you can press X > Limited Dissolve):
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How can I delete interior faces after voxelization?
Shoot those damn internal faces down! 🧊 🔫 ðŸ¤
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Weird Shadows, don't know how to fix it
The split normals (the normals that determine the shading) are messed up, click on the Clear Custom Split Normals Data button:
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Trouble bridging edges between circles without creating unwanted patterns
Bridge Edge Loops is a very predictable and dependable tool- a workhorse.
It looks like you selected a parts of two loops on the same mesh with an uneven number of points on either side. Here, I am ...
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"Weld edges into faces" problem
Your 2 vertices here are overlapping and disconnected, select all and press M > Merge by Distance and it will work:
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How Can I Automatically Separate a Mesh into Individual Faces (meshes) in Blender?
in Edit mode, select all and AltM (Split) > Faces by Edges then P (Separate) > By Loose Parts
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Invisible Lines Splitting Faces
GPUs render various primitives like points, lines, voxels... But when you render a surface, it will be rendered using only triangles.
So when you have a quad or "n-gon" face built on more ...
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How can I model a twisted marshmallow shape to have straight vertical line quad topology when viewed from the side?
You can begin with 4 symmetrized half circles:
Then give it a Screw modifier, which should give something like what you want?
At the end, apply the modifier, merge the vertices by distance, cut off ...
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Planes on Curves
What?
We can examine the setup and perhaps gain some insight into what it is "trying" to accomplish.
In your Odd Face Index Calculation frame, let's follow the data left-to-right…
…and ...
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Why aren't there dots in the center of faces in Blender 4?
It's not here by default anymore but you can activate their visibility in the Mesh Edit Mode Overlays panel > Center. Note that you need to be in Face select mode to see them :
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How can I Subdivide a Mesh into Even Square Faces?
No, you cannot fit perfect square faces on every cuboid. Let's take a simple example: a cuboid with dimensions that are not multiples of the same number. In this case, you cannot perfectly fit square ...
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Scale Tool Not Scaling Inwards - Only Scales Face Size
It scales faces individually because Individual Origins is selected in the Transform Pivot Point panel, instead of Median Point for example:
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How to fix shading issue on the topology of the modified cylinder?
The current edge flow of your model does not meet the requirements to effectively support a Subdivision modifier, leading to shading issues. You could try to remodel it like this then just adjust the ...
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Solidify Modifier Not Working Properly
You can't modify the topology of an object that has "solidify" until you have applied it as a modifier. Until such time Blender will see it as a 2 dimensional plane.
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Model appears stretched out in Object Mode
Press AltH and you'll see some hidden vertices, delete them.
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Extrude Individual Faces function is not working
The tool to extrude individual faces without having to inset them first is not a new update, it has been around for a very very long time.
It seems you confuse the Extrude Region and Move (or Extrude ...
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Blender switches individual origins to median when several faces selected
I guess what you mean is when you select connected faces. The Individual Origins does (and can) only work on single separate faces or mesh islands.
Single faces:
Mesh islands (selected faces with ...
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How Can I Select All Inner Faces of a Current Selection of Faces?
Why not just Ctrl+Click then Ctrl+Shift+Click?
Or just directly Click one face at one corner and then Ctrl+Shift+Click the opposite corner.
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The subdivision modifier destroyed the flat surface
You can use edge creasing to keep the border from being affected by subsurf : select the border edges and either hit shift+E & drag, or increase the "crease" property in the sidebar (&...
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How to fill a maple leaf shape properly?
Make a plane this size to cover the leaf outline and subdivide it as much as you need for simulation:
While in edit mode, select leaf in outliner, so that blender is in edit mode of subdivided plane ...
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Proportionally editing the highlighted area
That can be something like this:
Start with a half cube (cut in half in Z axis).
Flatten it in Z.
Stretch it in X.
Inset the top face.
Add a loop cut along the X axis.
Then another loop cut along Y ...
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Add object on position of face
You connect your Viewer node to one geometry, where the captured attribute exists. If you connected it to the "Cube" geometry, you would also see zeroes in the spreadsheet. For the most part,...
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Align cursor rotation to normal
The 3D cursor, when moved with ShiftRMB-drag, can be Ctrl snapped, so the settings on the left below will at least align its Z to face normal:
But, as an aside, IMO, the 3D cursor tool is still ...
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Why is the extrusion different when extruding a single face along its normal vs extruding a group of faces along their respective normals?
The difference is that when extruding a group of faces they are extruded along the averaged normal of all selected faces (no matter if they are connected or not) while extruding a single face only ...
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Why aren't there dots in the center of faces in Blender 4?
The dots only appear in X-Ray mode while in Edit mode, which you can enable with Alt+Z.
You can also enable Normals, under Mesh Edit Overlays. (In the top-right, just to the left of X-Ray and the ...
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How can I fill this without filling the holes?
I'm not really sure if you are starting with an svg or what but if you are starting with a curve obj you can just go to the Geometry tab and extrude it before converting it to a mesh
You can also ...
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How can I split and remove partially overlapping faces without Mesh Boolean?
Maybe a bit peculiar to this case, but here, you can selectively triangulate the diamond mesh by proximity of quad faces, and then selectively delete the resultant triangular faces by the same ...
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How can I fill the outline of a quarter ellipsoid with faces?
Extrude and snap to find the center (if you don't already have).
Use Shift+S > Cursor to Selected to place the 3D Cursor there, then delete the center vertex.
Add a dense sphere and scale it so to ...
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