Doc:2.6/Manual/Modeling/Meshes/Editing

Mesh Editing

Blender provides a variety of tools for editing meshes. These are available through the Mesh Tools palette, the Mesh menu in the 3d view header, and context menus in the 3d view, as well as individual shortcut keys.

Note that all the “transform precision/snap” keys (Ctrl and/or ⇧ Shift) work also for all these advanced operations… However, most of them do not have axis locking possibilities, and some of them do not take into account pivot point and/or transform orientation either…

These transform tools are available in the Transform section of the Mesh menu in the menu bar. Note that some of these can also be used on other editable objects, like curves, surfaces, and lattices.

Types of Tools

Mesh Tools

The mesh tools are found in various places, and available through shortcuts as well.

Transform and Deform tools: Translate Rotate Scale Mirror Shrink/Flatten/Along Normal Push/Pull To Sphere Shear Warp Edge Slide Vertex Slide Noise Smooth Vertex Rotate Edge Merge and Remove tools: Delete Dissolve Merge Auto-Merge Remove Doubles Tris to Quads Unsubdivide

Add and Divide tools: Make Edge/Face Fill Beauty Fill Solidify Quads to Tris Extrude Region Extrude Individual Subdivide Loop Cut/Slide Knife tool Vertex connect Duplicate Spin Screw Symmetrize Inset Bevel Wireframe Separate tools: Rip Rip fill Split Separate Edge Split

Accessing Mesh Tools

Mesh Tools Palette

When you select a mesh and ⇆ Tab into edit mode, the Tool Shelf changes from Object Tools to Mesh Tools. These are only some of the mesh editing tools.

Menus

The Mesh is located in the Header bar. Some of the menus can be accessed with shortcuts:

CtrlF brings up the Face tool menu

CtrlE brings up the Edge tool menu

CtrlV brings up the Vertex tool menu