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How to select specific edge loop?
I have this rectangular hole. I want to select the edges that I have marked in green.
I tried using Select > Select Loops > Edge Loops but depending on which edge I click I get one of the edge ...
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How to select all the vertices on one side of an edge loop?
I would like to select all the vertices on the character's hand from this edge loop down. Are there any quick ways to do it?
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Edge selection highlight not working
After updating to 4.1 I stopped seeing selected edges when more than one is selected.
In this gif you can see I am selecting 3 edges. The first one behaves as usual, but when selecting the second and ...
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Face selected in edge mode selecting
blender v. 4.0.2
I made a plan then extruded using E and the edges other planes next to it. These are supposed to be the floors to my rooms in my project. But then I selected the edges, using edge ...
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Why my entire edge selection suddenly stop?
When I select the entire edge suddenly the selection stop in that point as show in the picture.
Cant figure why!!! What I can do?
There's no ngon, no double faces, no double vertex......
Thanks for ...
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Geometry nodes , how to select specific parts of object and delete it?
i need to delete the faces and have a clean boundary. i can't figure it out how to select them.
(blender 3.6.1)
this shape is a base floor plan for creating a procedural building. something like the ...
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Use Geometry Nodes to determine Face Corners on side of edge loop
I'm using Blender 3.6.1 LTS.
I have an edge loop isolated from the edge loops generated by a boolean difference. Using the answer from geometry nodes - Get Faces of Edge I can isolate the faces on ...
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Is there a way to select every other line of faces along a cylinder quickly?
Is there a way to select like in the picture but quickly? and without having to select line by line?
I found a tutorial but it says to select the edges, I would like to select the faces.
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How to select between edges?
can i select the edges (red) between the blue edges on the screenshot somehow by one key? I've tried inner region selection, but it didn't help. Are there any script or addon that can help?
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My selection "hacks" or shortcuts aren´t working
When you are in edit mode and press Alt while clicking on an edge it will select all edges that make a loop, the same with faces, right?
Well, in my office PC it is the case but something happened in ...
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How could I continue this selection pattern?
I tried selecting all ring loops and tweak a bit with the checker deselect but this doesn't seem to work, any ideas?
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How to select edges for ripping without selecting enclosed faces?
I need to rip apart an object at its seams. Typically, I would do so by selecting a seam, selecting similar edges, and ripping the vertices apart. However, some objects have several seams that form ...
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Blender Python query/list uv edges from selected uv face to do operations on
This is probably a pretty noob question but I'm trying to iterate through the uv edges of selected uv faces on an object to do operations like:
bpy.ops.uv.align(axis="ALIGN_AUTO")
I can't ...
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Shift-Alt Not Working when selecting a face, edge, or vertice loop in Blender 3.3
I recently downloaded Blender 3.3. I am having difficulty in selecting a loop of faces, edges, or vertices on an object. In previous versions of Blender, I was able to accomplish this task by ...
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Is there a shortcut to make this edge selection? [duplicate]
Is there a shortcut to do this type of selection quickly?
Here's another example with a cylinder:
I know I can do it by toggling xray and doing a square / lasso selection, but for some reason I ...
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How to select multiple vertices in order?
I can manually select multiple vertices in order and press J to connect them with edges.
But I don't want to manually select vertices. I need whatever selection method available to select them in ...
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How to select all polygons within a selected edge perimeter?
Is there an easy way to select all polygons within a selected edge boundary? Selecting each polygon manually would be a pain.
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How do I select only one of two identical objects, on top of each, in edge or edit mode?
Ok, so as shown below, I have these two cubes, and I'm in edge mode. What I'm trying to do is just select the entire Cube .001 so I can use the Alt + S scale tool to scale it down, while keeping it ...
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After applying modifiers, I cannot select faces or edges
I imported a .stl file into Blender and I edited it in the Geometry Node Editor.
I want to measure the area of certain faces, but I cannot see or select the faces or edges as before. Since the model ...
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Edge selection behavior, how to make it like Maya?
The Image clearly describes my problem with Blender, how can I change this to work like it does in maya? I have looked extensively in preferences, and I can't find anything.
I want box select to ...
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Measuring edge angle relative to faces normals (negative angles allowed), and automatically select similar
Ive got a mesh, and Im wanting to select all acute edges with angles relative to their adjacent faces to a certain degree. But it seems that even if a connection between two faces is flexing inward, ...
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Box select doesn't select short edges
When I do a box select on an object in edit mode where I only want to select the visible edges, after selecting and zooming in, I see it hasn't selected a bunch of ...
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How Can I Select A Single Edge Among Linked Duplicates?
I duplicated a bunch of cubes to model buildings and I used the linked duplication method, Alt + D but when I tried to select an edge of a cube in Edit mode (while in Edge Selection Mode), it selects ...
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edit mode grab tool doesn't work as expected
I thought this would have been a common problem to encounter but I hasn't seen any questions about it being asked.
It may have been me clicking the wrong shortcut but my grab tool doesn't work as ...
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How do I use the alt left-click shortcut to select an edge loop without making the closest vertex active?
Sorry if this is a dumb question, I'm a beginner to Blender.
At 6:55 in Part 1, Level 3 of the Modelling - Blender Beginner Tutorial by Blender Guru, he uses alt left-click to select an edge loop of ...
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Unintentional edge and face selection
So I'm trying to follow a tutorial on YouTube to design a basic sword. I'm able to follow his steps about halfway until I get to the step at time code 12:13. When I delete those faces at the top, my ...
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How to select outer edge of selected faces?
For example, when faces like below are selected, is there any fast way to switch the selection from the faces to the edges that are marked as blue? (Deselect the faces, select only the outer edges.)
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Cannot select anything but an edge highlighted in pink
When I opened a project that was left for a couple weeks, I was stuck in the situation as shown in the picture, where I could not select any other vertices or edges other than the edge highlighted in ...
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Is there any way to select a smoothing group?
I have a mesh with designated sharp edges here and there, broken into few "smoothed" areas. I wonder if there is any way to select polygons within a "smoothed" area, that is surrounded by sharp edges? ...
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How do you select the inside vertices of an object faster?
I've been seeing some tutorials and they all make two mouse clicks and somehow manage to get a clean selection of the inside vertices with no use of Alt or the B key which is what I usually have to do....
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Selecting part does not seem on blender. No wireframe edges
I am using blender 2.8 as you can see on the picture. There was an issue with evee render. Blender was crashing. After that, I reinstalled driver then it ran well.
But in edit mode, I can see any ...
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Alt-click for edge loop
Hi I am a complete newcomer to blender and am following this tutorial, where he says to alt+click to select an entire row or "edge loop". I have followed all instructions exactly up to this point (3 ...
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How to select all faces between selected edges
Is it possible to select all faces between selected edges in Blender ?
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What are wire edges?
In the select > select all by trait > non manifold menu there is the option "Wire". What are these wire edges?
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Alt + left-click not working anymore in Blender 2.8?
I don't know why but it seems Alt+LMB is not working for edge loop selection in blender 2.80. Is it a bug? Or is there's a new shortcut for that?
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Scaling from the center of the object?
I'm trying to scale from the center. The entire circle is selected but it's scaling from the white edge that was option clicked. Is there a setting for this? How can I keep my selections centered?
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Mark edges as loop
I've imported an SVG and, unfortunately, Blender doesn't recognize the loops. This makes selection much harder—I have to select each edge individually rather than use loop selection.
Is there a way ...
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Filter current selection in edit mode
is there a way, like in maya, to filter current vertices / edges / faces selection or whole selection if none is selected by default ?
for example if none is selected, i would like to select all ...
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Alt+Shift+<RightMouseButton> not work for me
I successfully select group of edges use Alt+RightMouseButton, but when I need highlight one more group of edges and use Shift+Alt+RightMouseButton, the old selection is deleted and the new selection ...
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How can I select multiple edge loops?
I know that I can select an edge loop in edit mode by pressing Alt and clicking on an edge.
But if I try to select multiple edge loops by holding down shift while selecting a second one, it does not ...
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Sliding an edge while keeping connected 90 faces in same orientation?
I'm self taught and just recently learned of the edge/vertices slide tool. I was wondering if it was possible to slide an edge, while keeping a perpendicular "lip/bevel?" in the same orientation as it ...
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Select faces within two cuts/edges
I got a subdivided mesh/face where a road should run along. So we have an outer and an inner edge. What I want to do now is delete all these faces that lie within the outer and inner cut/edge. Of ...
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How to select edge rings between two edges?
Holding Ctrl you can select the Shortest Path between two selected egdes.
This essentially allows you to select a range edgeloop.
Like so:
Ctrl+Alt+LMB will allow you to select and edge ring like so:...
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move loop selection to next or previous loop?
I am trying to move the selected loop to next loop (the first selected loop needs to be deselected as well, what i need help with is to move the selection not expand it. Is it any command in blender ...
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Get a face selected pointing upwards
I am trying to create a script that selects a face that is pointing upwards from a edge selection. It does not matter if you have several edges or one selected i only need to get one face on top ...
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How to select faces/edges/vertices on one side of an object?
I would like to select one side of an object, like shown in the image below (this is a very simple object that I created for the purpose of demonstration).
I did it in this image by going around the ...
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Select inner edge of solidified mesh
I am following this tutorial, but I just can't get past step 10. No matter what I try I cannot select inner vertices.
Here is my mesh after hitting A-KEY, it looks like the inner edges are not ...
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Select edges by length?
Is it possible to select all edges with a specific length?
I have a very exotic problem. In a computer game model, there is audience projected on several billboards, and depending on a billboards ...
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How can I automatically extend edge loop selection?
I have a cylinder that I erased some faces near the middle of it on the side like this.
However I when I Alt click the edge of it, it doesn't go completely around the new edge like this:
What I ...
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How to control which edge loop is selected?
Sometimes when I'm in edit mode, there will be maybe 3 or 4 possible edge loops I can select. About 95% of the time it selects the edge loop which I don't want.
Is there anyway to control which edge ...
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