From: krass
Friends, Hello!
There is a great team / script "M" for merging edges in solid & joined surface (position 1).
Such a question: is there a similar script or command for merging faces (position 2)?
Thanks in advance!
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From: Michael Gibson
Hi krass - for planar faces, select the faces and run Edit > Separate on them to break the chunk of them off from the main object. Then run Edit > Separate again to break them into totally individual surfaces. Then run Boolean Union - the booleans will do some processing to merge adjacent planar faces into large planes and will merge the faces together. Then select all the pieces and run Edit > Join to glue them back together.
At some point in the future I would like to update the Merge command to work on faces as well, but one reason why I have not done that as of yet is I have some idea that maybe the regular Join command should do the job of both joining and merging but I have not figured out the details on that yet.
- Michael
From: krass
Hi, Michael!
Thank you for the answer! I'll try your way.
Just I put that there for a handy addition to the process, and I do not know about it: for MOI3D so many scripts created ...
If in the future you will make the connection faces is as simple as connecting the edges - it would be cool!
From: Fubax
Could a script be made to automate this merging faces process?
From: Michael Gibson
Hi Fubax,
re:
> Could a script be made to automate this merging faces process?
Planar face merging is already automatically done when you do a boolean union.
For merging things other than planes it's a pretty low level operation and it would be difficult to do with scripting.
- Michael
