Quickly aligning angled vertices?

Cryer

Hey,

I am modeling a fire place:


But as you can see:



...the mesh is not very well aligned. I would like all the corners to be the same 90 degree angle, is there a straight forward way to do this?

As always, thanks for your help.

Dan.

IronHawk

I'd connect the edges to create a profile on the side and then extrude that shape along a rectangle. You'll get perfect corners all around.

CrazyButcher

as you see from the horizontal and vertical lines, you cannot really move the vertices anywhere else, else you get distortions in the sides being not at 90°

so the mess is not the corners, but the top/right profiles not matching.

but ironhawks suggestion should yield a proper flow

IxenonI

just rebuild it properly. would be faster .....

Cryer

It was more for future reference, i used to use align to axis or whatever its called in Max.



Woot! Done.

Mark Dygert

One other suggestion, not that it matters that much now...

You could use the slice tool and rotate it 45 degrees, and re-extrude the side from the freshly cut edges.

Funky Bunnies

truth, i'd use the cut faces tool as Vig suggested. If you hold j while rotating it'll snap to every 15 degrees (and you can change the increment in the tool settings)

renderhjs

I use alot the symetry tool for that,- just rotate the mirror plane ( [1]key of that modifier) 45° and it reflects the profile around the corner

kio

ok now it gets a little funky - you also could create a helper pivot by using another object which is 45° rotated, and use that as your temp axis system to scale the vertices to a planar level... but just rebuilding it would be more efficient i guess

IronHawk

if he creates a profile he can wrap it round whatever he wants in the future as well. Just save off the profile to a shape layer and save it for later.

Mark Dygert

kio wrote: »

ok now it gets a little funky - you also could create a helper pivot by using another object which is 45° rotated, and use that as your temp axis system to scale the vertices to a planar level... but just rebuilding it would be more efficient i guess

In 3dsmax 2k8 and higher there is hardly a need for helper pivot "objects" instead check out the "Working Pivot". Having an alternate pivot point thats only a keystroke away is a bit faster then setting up helpers. I'm not saying its a total replacement for helper objects but its another option in recent versions people tend to overlook.

kio

yeah - haven't upgraded to a newer max version, still hanging on to max9. will keep that option in mind.