Quickly aligning angled vertices?

Cryer · Jun 2008

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 · Jun 2008

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 · Jun 2008

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 · Jun 2008

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

Cryer · Jun 2008

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

Woot! Done.

Mark Dygert · Jun 2008

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 · Jun 2008

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 · Jun 2008

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 · Jun 2008

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 · Jun 2008

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 · Jun 2008

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 · Jun 2008

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

Quickly aligning angled vertices?

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