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How can I bridge the top of a cylinder in 3DSMax?
Another problem occured. So I will just re- edit the discussion. There's a hole in the center. I want to create a face. How can I do that? -
Re: How can I bridge the top of a cylinder in 3DSMax?
Here's an extra technique that produces nice quads on certain amounts of segments that wasn't mentioned yet; 1) use the Border selection mode to select the open edge 2) deselect two opposing edges 3) hit the "Bridge" tool -
Re: How can I bridge the top of a cylinder in 3DSMax?
@Millenia: This method can also be used, but I experienced some issues when creating high poly (sub-D) models from it. I normally prefer a "centerpoint-cap", even if this creates one additional vert and some more polys. -
Re: How can I bridge the top of a cylinder in 3DSMax?
Go to "border selection" (Default key 3), select one edge of the hole, all other should be selected automatically) and then click on "cap" in the Edit Rollout. This will fill the hole with a single n-gon. You can then go to vertex mode (default: 1) select the vertex and use connect to create 4-sided Polygons. Another… -
Re: How can I bridge the top of a cylinder in 3DSMax?
I just did it and it worked. So much for the morning angst and the discussion. HUGE thanks tho! -
Re: How can I bridge the top of a cylinder in 3DSMax?
Extrude by 0 and then move the faces downward. -
Re: How can I bridge the top of a cylinder in 3DSMax?
Thats awesome. Thank you Dethling!
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