a lot like "Weld" function, but without the actual welding?

ghost-d · Jul 2011

Here´s a thought - Is there any feature in max that allows you to place selected vertices on the same place (center of selection) without actually welding them together? I´m working on a project where I could use such thing, but so far the only options I have is to select certain vertices and either use scale to get them together, or weld them and then use split for certain edges. It´s not that much of a problem because both these methods are quite quick, but it´s getting way too repetitive to do it this way and it would save me a lot of nerves to be able to use a feature made directly for such thing. Thanks in advance for any advice.

Dismembered · Jul 2011

Someone correct me if I am wrong, but I think you are looking for the fuse button. I don't use it much so I am not sure if it will work for really far distances.

McGreed · Jul 2011

You can always use the Planar buttons in Edit Poly / Edit Geometry. Just press X, Y and Z, and all selected vertexs is at the same place. Optimally you could always script it.

GeeDave · Jul 2011

macroScript NotWeld
	category:"Scripts"
	buttonText:"NotWeld"
	toolTip:"NotWeld"
(
	$.EditablePoly.MakePlanarIn #X
	$.EditablePoly.MakePlanarIn #Y
	$.EditablePoly.MakePlanarIn #Z
)

Throw it into notepad, save out as a .mcr, drag and drop it into Max... and then assign it a quad menu or hot-key. (Via the "Scripts" categeory). Requires editable poly and your desired vert selection.

Making it a button is pretty redundant, as literally just hitting "X Y Z" as McGreed suggested is only milliseconds slower than hitting the one button you'd make.

r_fletch_r · Jul 2011

Dismembered: fuse is a spline op

leechdemon · Jul 2011

Snap is your friend.

mortalhuman · Jul 2011

leechdemon wrote: »

Snap is your friend.

this.

right click the snaps button. vertices.

ghost-d · Jul 2011

Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I never really thought about using planar X,Y,Z to get the desired result.
Big thanks to GeeDave for the script code - works as a charm! you just saved me lots of headaches. Thank you very much again!

r_fletch_r · Jul 2011

mortalhuman wrote: »

this.

right click the snaps button. vertices.

doesn't average the vert position.

passerby · Jul 2011

dont use max much but in silo and maya i found it pretty fast to just do a weld followed by a break, that way i can get the verts in the same spot with averaged, than break it back into 2 verts.

Octo · Jul 2011

Planar X,Y,Z is nice but its missing an important function that weld has;
A threshold spinner.
I've wanted something similar myself, especially in the UV editor where you often just want to overlap UV clusters perfectly and not necessarily weld them...

ghost-d · Jul 2011

passerby wrote: »

dont use max much but in silo and maya i found it pretty fast to just do a weld followed by a break, that way i can get the verts in the same spot with averaged, than break it back into 2 verts.

breaking vertices would only give me more work, since it would split the connected 1 vertex into 4 vertices. And I would have to select the certain 2 of them to weld together again and same process for the other 2 vertices (and since they´d be laying all on one spot, it would be pain in the ass to do the selections).
What I was using so far was splitting edges, that did separate the certain vertices without breaking them completely.

But the script code GeeDave wrote for me works perfectly. That´s exactly what I needed and there´s absolutely no possible way for this to be done any more comfortable or faster, I believe.

a lot like "Weld" function, but without the actual welding?

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