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[mokosan]

I've been using the segments tab for a few days now and am finding it very useful for the hard surface models Im working on right now.

I am however finding, particularly with cylinders that there are a fair amount of edges that are broken through the process. This does not happen to all of the cylinders, and there are a lot, I'd say less than 30% have broken edges.

The threshold angle is set to 60%, weld all fast weld off.


Any suggestions to avoid this and is there a way to have any corresponding edges that are close together auto weld by threshold??

M

[headus]

Straight cylinder should have no problems ... are these pipe bends?

"edges that are close together auto weld"

The Segment "Weld Gaps" button can be used to weld adjacent edges; looking at your example above, you'll probably need to set the threshold fairly high. Clicking the arrows only takes it up to 25%, but you can manually enter higher values in if you want.

Phil

[mokosan]

no there are no bends, straight pipes.
I have been playing with the options for weld gaps, read the doc too.

I discovered that I need to check the weld to OFF in order to weld gaps. Didnt read anything about that in the user guide. Thats what I was looking for though!

Cheers
M