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the object. This prov ides a magnet-like effect with
a sphere of influence around the selection.
For more information, see Soft Selection Rollout
(page 1–963).
Edit Edges ro llout
This rollout includes commands specific to edge
editing.
Note: To delete edges, select them and press the
Delete key. This deletes all selected edges and
attached polygons, which can create one or more
holes in the mesh. To delete edges without creating
holes, use Remove.
Insert Ver tex—Lets you subdivide visible edges
manually.
After turning on Insert Vertex, click an edge to
add a vertex at that location. You can continue
subdividing polygons as long as the command is
active.
To stop inserting edges, right-click in the viewport,
or click Insert Vertex again to turn it off.
Note: In previous versions of the software, this
command was called Divide.
Remove—Deletes selected edges and combines the
polygons that use them.
Removing one edge is like making it invisible. The mesh is
affected only when all or all but one of the edges depending
on one vertex are removed. At th at point, the vertex itself is
deleted and the surface is retriangulated.
To delete the associated vertices when you remov e
edges, press and hold
Ct rl while executing
a Remo v e operation, either by mouse or with
the
Backspace key. This option, called Clean
Remove, ensures that the remaining polygons are
planar.
Left: The original edge selection
Center: Standard Remove operation leaves ex tra vertices.
Right: Clean Remove with
Ctrl +Remove deletes the extra
vertices.
Edges with the same polygon on both sides usually
can’t be removed.
Wa rn in g : Use of Remove can result in mesh shape
changes and non-planar polygons.
Split—
Divides t he mesh along the selected edges.
This does nothing when applied to a single e dge in
themiddleofamesh. Theverticesattheendof
affected edges must be separable in order for this
option to work. For example, it would work on a
single edge that intersects an existing b order, since
the border vertex can be split in two. Additionally,
twoadjacentedgescouldbesplitinthemiddleofa
grid or sphere, since the shared vertex can be split.