cant weld verts

Canadian Ink

I am using Max 9....I made a model from a couple of different meshes and attached them all together, I made copies of like the arm and the leg and want to weld the verts together along the seams....but I am unable to weld or target weld....anu ideas?

butt_sahib

Have you tried all the protocol procedures? i.e.
-Reset xform
-Seeing if theres anything wrong with the mesh
-Merging two seperate scenes
-Exporting,importing and trying again?
-Checking mesh to see if theres any polies inbetween them etc etc ?
What does it to exactly when you target weld?

Canadian Ink

Ya its not so much a problem as something that I just dont know how to do, Its something I run into consistently.

Mark Dygert

Make sure there is one edge that directly connects the two verts, you can't weld across a face without one. Or are the verts on an open edge?

Make sure you go into vert mode and click "unhide all". Sometimes when you hide and unhide polys or elements it will hide the verts and not display the verts unless you specifically go into vert mode and unhide all.

Canadian Ink

ya i'm talking about 2 open edges like connecting say a leg to a torso on a character model

Mark Dygert

If you select the two boarders and click bridge does that work? Have any screen shots?

Canadian Ink

bridge huh?.....i'll giver a try thanks.

danshewan

Canadian Ink wrote: »

ya i'm talking about 2 open edges like connecting say a leg to a torso on a character model

The two pieces of geometry are combined into one polygonal object, right? If not, use Attach before trying the welds.

Canadian Ink

danshewan wrote: »

The two pieces of geometry are combined into one polygonal object, right? If not, use Attach before trying the welds.

Ya they are already attached

MegaMoogle

If there's a polygon in between the verts you're trying to weld it won't let you. If this is the case, delete the polygon/s that's in between them and then try welding the verts again.

Eric Chadwick

Editable Poly has more restrictions on welding vertices together than Editable Mesh. Try converting to EM, see if it works.

Canadian Ink

EricChadwick wrote: »

Editable Poly has more restrictions on welding vertices together than Editable Mesh. Try converting to EM, see if it works.

Havent tried that either, thanks!

low odor

STL check... Sometimes I get hidden faces when I am doing alot of cutting..etc ..does exactly what your describing

Tumerboy

Max is funky with it's vert welding. I often find that things I think SHOULD weld, just don't.

Try collapsing them together. Often that will take care of things that weld won't. You may have to collapse multiple times, as it will collapse verts on each contiguous mesh first, then across the gap.

If you'd used the cut tool to add an edge vert on either side, it's possible that the vert is actually very slightly inside the polygon, and not actually on the edge (I hate this SOOO much) Select the polys around each side's vert, and use quick slice with vert snap on, to cut an edge between them, then collapse (a couple of times).

MoP

If it's not welding at all then your mesh is dodgy. Either it's capped off at the ends or you've somehow managed to duplicate verts at those points (possibly through use of the Cut tool, it likes "not quite" snapping to verts and creating two on top of each other).

If the verts are duplicated then Tumerboy's suggestion of using Collapse should do it.

If none of those things work then something is very wrong with your application.

crazyfingers

one thing that helps me a lot is i'll go into vertex mode and select all the verts, then i just do a general weld with a low distance threshold.

More often than not my issue is that there were 2 verts sitting on top of each other, and it's trying to attach to the wrong one.