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How to round corners of plane?
No need to subdivide the whole plane, no need to add vertex groups or modifiers!
All you need is Ctrl+Shift+B and middle mouse button scrolling on vertex or vertices:
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What's the fastest / most fun way to create a fork in Blender?
As you know a fork rarely comes with only one peak, it generally has 2, more often 3 or 4, sometimes more. It would be very tedious to model each and every of those peaks.
As you may know, for this ...
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How can I make a hexagonal grill?
Here's a way to do this using modifiers:
Add a circle (⇧ ShiftA> Mesh > Circle) and set the number of Vertices to 6 in the redo panel to make a hexagon:
Take note of the X dimension of the ...
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How can I add vertices to intersection of two edges?
With Blender 2.8+ you can use the Auto Merge Tool to insert a vertex between intersecting edges.
Just enable the option Auto Merge and Split Edges & Faces in the Tool Shelf, then select a vertex ...
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Making a Trypophobia-triggering image In Blender
Tissue addon
Another possibilty would be to use the Tissue add-on.
You basically define a "component", in this case a little hole with a protruberance (the one outlined in orange) and spread it on ...
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What's the fastest / most fun way to create a fork in Blender?
IMO the fastest method should be to subdivide a primitive icosphere and use the Cast modifier set to Fork, but this option is mysteriously missing from Blender!
In my opinion this is bad, and the ...
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an easy way to subdivide along one axis only?
I think the command you are looking for is CTRL + R and scroll mouse button to add/subtract loops, and then LMB to accept loop count and then RMB to confirm location of loops.
https://www.blender.org/...
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Duplicating a mesh object
The operator bpy.ops.object.duplicate() will duplicate the selected objects and then make the new duplicate objects selected while de-selecting the original objects....
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Can I set my pose position like the new rest position?
Apply the armature modifier - armature in rest pose doesn't deform anything, so we need also a mesh to match the new rest pose.
Pose > Apply Pose as Rest Pose. This will set current pose as the rest ...
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Finding vertices in a Vertex Group using Blender's Python API
Methods
1. List comprehension
As mentioned by Pycoder in the comments below, using operators is often slow. So a quicker and simpler (and X2 faster) method to get all the verts that belong to a ...
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Straighten Vertices Along a Line
Align to a custom Transform Orientation
1. In Vertex Select Mode, draw an edge
You can use Ctrl+LeftClick to create and then extrude vertices.
Then with the entire edge selected, snap the Cursor to ...
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How to remove edge creases?
You may remove the edge creases by selecting the whole mesh or only the desired edges, and then opening the properties panel with N
Then change the mean crease to 0...
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What's the fastest / most fun way to create a fork in Blender?
This is both fun and fast
git clone git://git.blender.org/blender.git
git checkout -b my-fork
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How Can I Unjoin Meshes?
If you can easily select the vertices that you want to separate, then in edit mode press P > By Selection. You may also be able to use the By Material if the materials are different or By Loose ...
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Is it possible to calculate and display volume of a mesh object?
You can use the 3D Print Toolbox add-on for that. Activate it in the Preferences and it will appear in the Tool Shelf of the 3D View. Top line buttons let you calculate volume and total area.
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Merge multiple meshes into one single mesh?
There are two methods of combining meshes that I know of;
The first uses the addon BoolTool:
Select the separate objects that you want to combine
Press Ctrl+Numpad +, to perform a union operation
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Multiple instances of one object/mesh
You have 2 solutions:
Linked Duplications: altD allows you to create a linked duplication, meaning if you modify one of the instances it will change all the others as they share the exact same mesh ...
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Modeling Waffle Shape of Cone
You may model it using poke and bevel tools.
Select the faces you want to put the pattern on and hide the rest of the mesh with Shift+H. Press Alt+P to poke faces. Select vertical edges (select one ...
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create mesh then add vertices to it in python
This is how to create a new object and add the vertices in the verts list:
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Placing 4 Circles on a sphere
Facected regular solid & boolean op.
Fastest way to find out how to sudbidive the 3D space of the sphere in n parts without relying on complicated solid-angle formulas is to use regular solids.
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What's the fastest / most fun way to create a fork in Blender?
Another solution would be to use Softbody:
Please tell me if you need a more in detail explanation.
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How do I Inset a face equally?
You have to Apply Scale to your mesh first in Object Mode.
Ctrl+A > Scale.
Now try I to Inset Faces again.
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What would be the easiest way to UV map a complex object?
Model your own UV Map
This technique allows precision control over the geometry of your layout by unwrapping from a Shape Key pose.
"Project From View" allows anything we are looking at in the 3D ...
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Is there a way to fill the area between two circles?
If both circles have the same number of vertices you can use the Bridge Edge Loops (from the menu Mesh > Edge > Bridge Edge Loops, or press F3 to bring up the search menu, and start typing ...
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How to cut an object along a curve?
Although other answers are correct they all include unnecessary steps, you don't need to convert your curve to a mesh, nor do you need to extrude or joint anything, you can cut you mesh model directly ...
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an easy way to subdivide along one axis only?
You may subdivide in a 'lenght' axis with W-->Subdivide but you have to select only the 'lenght axis' edges. Enable the edge selection mode and select them (with B or C ), then subdivide with W. You'...
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What's the fastest / most fun way to create a fork in Blender?
Unicode font
Copy the fork 🍴 from unicode fonts
Add a font, edit mode, select text, select font, paste fork, extrude.
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