Removing Faces
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Mr. Conehead here.
Trying to remove the face from the end of a cylinder. I can't figure out how to
select it so I can delete it. Help!
Mitch
For removing the face from the cylinder, it should be pretty straightforward as
long as you haven't rotated the cylinder at all. If you have rotated it,
rotate it back to its original position, or recreate it.
1. Make sure you are in Full Draw mode (not Box Mode) for the display.
2. You have to pick the correct viewport to select the face in. Don't choose
the viewport where the cylinder looks like a circle, pick one of the other ones
where you can see the length of the cylinder. Choose Select/Face/Window and
draw a box around the top edge of the cylinder in one of those viewports. You
should see the top edge of the cylinder turn red in all the viewports.
3. Choose Modify/Face/Delete and turn Selected ON. Click on the viewport. The
face should disappear. The mesh won't look any different on screen, you'll
have to render it to see the difference.
Michele
Aha…thanks! That did the trick. Appreciate your help. I could not find this
infor anywhere in the manual. I would like to take that manual and put it in a
dark place where the sun never shines.
Glad to help. For that reason, that info is written in detail in the first
chapter of the 3DS book Glass & Reflection, co-authored by yours truly.
Michele <never miss an opportunity for a blatant plug>
Michele:
I wanna get those books. What is the fastest way to order them.
Thanks,
Mitch
Mitch:
>> I wanna get those books. What is the fastest way to order them.
We are also distributors for them, we have the full set in stock. Just FAX
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FAX (714) 833-8655 Voice (714) 833-0334
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Re: where to get the books, see Greg Pyros's message.
Michele
From looking over your messages for the past several months, it looks like
you've been attempting to _read_ the manual where the sun never shines.
– Jack
>
From looking over your messages for the past several months, it looks like
you've been attempting to _read_ the manual where the sun never shines.
>
Your right, when I attempt to read the 3DS manual there is so much swamp gas
that I can't see what is on the page <g>. And the lights are on full blast. I
am hoping that the new manual in R3 will address some of the weaknesses to
newcomers that I have found over the last few months.
Mitch
Excuse me, but I'd like to step in here between you and Jack and make a
request. If you've got specific issues you'd like to address in the
documentation, please do so. But vague comments like "swamp gas" and "sun
never shines" are really not productive.
If you two DO want to go at it like this, please take it "off-line" and do it
via email.
Thanks,
– G
>> Trying to remove the face from the end of a cylinder. I can't figure >>
out how to select it so I can delete it. Help!
Mitch,
While in the viewport looking at the side of the cylinder do a
Select-Face-Window and clich just outside the face you wish to delete. Then
stretch the bounding box till it lines up with the end face (that part of the
box will turn black when it's lined up) then click. Then it is
Modify-Face-Delete with Selected on.
-Ralph Frantz
Thanks…I had to select jus the end of the cylinder then the cap (face) on the
end turned into a red line and I knew I got it.
>> Thanks…I had to select jus the end of the cylinder then the cap >>
(face) on the end turned into a red line and I knew I got it.
Glad to be of help, Mitchell.
-Ralph
Switch to an elevational view (front, back, left, right, or a good user-view)
and use select/face/window to grab just the top (which will of course just be a
straight line). then use modify/face/delete with the "selected" button turned
on.
Dave