[Maya] How can I delete useless vertices

Harut

Every time i use shatter effect in Maya it breaks the object into pieces and leaves after it a lot of unneeded vertices which are useless and don't give a shape to the model.
And every time I need to manually delete this vertices to achieve the result in the right.
Is there any tool or technique to get rid of that vertices faster???

cromadbomber

Could you upload that particular mesh I would like to try something on it.

Axi5

You could select by hard edges, invert and then delete those edges?

Harut

not the same mesh but I have done the same (created sphere and shattered it into 4 pieces)

Harut

Axi5 said:

You could select by hard edges, invert and then delete those edges?

OK ..  after selecting hard edges and inverting selection a got this result
I want to clean the inner part of shattered object(the part with red material).

cromadbomber

Use constraints with propagation set to Angle. Use a value of 1 since its basically a flat surface.

With the selection made press Ctrl+Right click -> Edges then go into "Contained Edges".
With your edges selected press Ctrl+Del. That will delete selected edges and all asociated vertice alongside it.

Harut

cromadbomber said:

Use constraints with propagation set to Angle. Use a value of 1 since its basically a flat surface.

With the selection made press Ctrl+Right click -> Edges then go into "Contained Edges".
With your edges selected press Ctrl+Del. That will delete selected edges and all asociated vertice alongside it.

OK  Thanks a lot ... It worked, never used constraints , it's a very powerful tool.