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Edit Geometry Rollout (Mesh) 1017
Top: Original selection
Middle: Tessellated once
Bottom: Tessellated twice
Tension—(Active only when Tessellate by Edge is
active.) This spinner, to the right of the Tessellate
button, lets you increase or decrease the Edge
tension value. A negative value pulls vertices
inward from their plane, resulting in a concave
effect. A positive value pulls vertices outward from
their plane, resulting in a rounding effect.
B y E dge/Face-Center—Edgeinsertsverticesin
themiddleofeachedgeanddrawsthreelines
connecting those vertices. As a result, four faces
arecreatedoutofoneface. (Toseethisatthe
Polygon or Element sub-object level, turn off
Display panel > Display Properties rollout > Edges
Only.)
Face-Center adds a vertex to the center of each
face and draws three connecting lines from that
vertex to the three original vertices. As a result,
three faces are created out of one face.
Set of polygons showing Face-Center tessellation
Explode group (Object and Face/Polygon/
Element levels only )
Explode—Breaks up the current object into
multiple elements or objects based on t he angles
ofitsedges. ThisfunctionisavailableinObject
mode as well as al l sub-object le vels except Vertex
and Edge.
Exploded faces (white) removed from tessellated faces