3dsmax? weld vertex to edge

J Randall

I am just daydreaming with max open, is there a script or plug-in with max where you can weld a vert to an edge?:poly122:

thomasp

nah. what are you trying to achieve? snap it or insert a vert into an edge or something?

J Randall

auto weld where it just welds it between 2 verts on an edge, welds extra vert coming in to the edge line and auto calculates a turnable edge, any poly tool out there?

Eric Chadwick

Editable Poly doesn't support welding a fin to (or extruding it from) an edge in the middle of another mesh. This makes it a non-manifold mesh, not allowed. Editable Mesh supports this, but that has all kinds of drawbacks. A way around the shading seams is to snap the vertices together, then use an Edit Normals modifier to align the normals.