Questions tagged [knife-tool]
The Knife Tool cuts new edges into meshes, adding vertices to user-defined points regardless of existing topology. The Knife Project Tool projects the topology of one object onto another, using the current view angle. Use this tag for questions pertaining to the Knife Tool and the Knife Project Tool.
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How would you cut a shape out of an object using another object?
Coming from SketchUp one of the tools I miss most is the circle draw tool which lets you draw a circle on any face and then you could extrude it in/out. The only tool that I know of that comes close ...
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Cutting a mesh in half
I have a mesh which I have imported from an OBJ file. I would like to apply Material A to the section of the mesh which is on one side of a given plane, and apply Material B to the section of the mesh ...
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Cut straight lines with knife tool
How can I get the knife tool to snap to the same spot on another edge to get a straight cut. Here is an example of what I want to do:
When the line turns green the cut is straight. How can I do this ...
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How to connect faces between 2 edge loops?
I'm trying to fill empty space in my mesh, and I looked at the knife tool page on the Blender Wiki, and I'm not sure if there's a way to make it so that a new edge is made using the knife tool. I took ...
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Remove vertex while using knife tool?
When using the knife tool, if I accidentally click in the wrong spot, is there a way to remove the last placed vertex instead of cancelling the whole operation and starting over?
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Is there any way to get a specific angle using the knife tool?
Instead of the constrained 45 degrees that happens when you press C, is there a specific angle I can get for example 35 degrees instead?
It's currently cut at 45 degrees in the attached image and I ...
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Knife project not working
In some simple cases such using the default Monkey as the object to project, the resulting cut looks nothing like the monkey. Note the selected cube only has only been cut around the monkey's eyes, ...
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Knife tool doesn't cut obscured edges
I'm using Blender 2.66, I find that the knife tool (K) doesn't work the way it used to.
Dragging across an obscured edge, even if selected, doesn't cut it.
There seems to be no way to activate the ...
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Can I confirm knife action with mouse, or other key than Enter?
Can I confirm knife actions with the mouse, or some other key than Enter? Going all the way to Enter breaks the flow in a way that's inconsistent with blender's philosophy.
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How to cut a mesh at the edge?
Is there a way I can cut by continuing an edge?
So I want a cut at the red line, possibility using the knife tool, but I can't use the angle snap, since its not on any particular angle, so is there a ...
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Split mesh into two pieces using bezier curve
I've created a Bezier curve, and used to shrinkwrap modifier to project it onto my object:
Now I want to cut along the curve, splitting the mesh into two.
How can I do this? If I just use knife ...
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Slice up terrain mesh into chunks
I have terrain (ANT Landscape plugin) that I would like to cut up into chunks (don't need to be equal size) for a game engine so that I can do occlusion culling / or load and unload chunks around the ...
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How to cut a mesh by specifying the angle [duplicate]
I wanna cut a mesh by specifying the angle, but knife mode only cut 45° with C key.
I want to cut by the angle around specifying the vertex.
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Why does the knife tool create random extra geometry?
The knife tool seems to be generating duplicate vertices, creating additional unwanted geometry. Is this a bug or related to camera or tool settings?
Any idea?
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Clarifying the vert:
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What is the best way to model the intersection of multiple hard-surface pieces?
What is the best way to model the intersection of multiple hard-surface objects? Not technically different "objects" persay - but where different pieces meet visually.
What are various ways ...
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