Loop Subdivide¶

Loop Cutting and Slide¶

Reference

Manner: Edit Mode
Panel: Toolbar ‣ Tools ‣ Mesh Tools ‣ Add together: Loop Cut and Slide
Hotkey: Ctrl-R

Loop Cutting and Slide splits a loop of faces by inserting a new border loop intersecting the called edge.

Usage¶

The tool is interactive and has 2 steps:

Pre-visualizing the Cut¶

Subsequently the tool is activated, motility the cursor over a desired edge. The cut to be made is marked with a magenta colored line as you move the mouse over the various edges. The to exist created edge loop stops at the poles (tris and northward-gons) where the existing face loop terminates.

Sliding the new Edge Loop¶

In one case an border is called via LMB, yous can motion the mouse along the edge to decide where the new edge loop volition exist placed. This is identical to the Border Slide tool. Clicking LMB once again confirms and makes the cut at the pre-visualized location, or clicking RMB forces the cut to exactly 50%. This step is skipped when using multiple edge loops (run across below).

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Mesh before inserting edge loop.

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Preview of border loop location.

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Interactive placement of border loop betwixt adjacent loops.

Options¶

The options are available while the tool is in use, and after in the Adjust Last Operation panel.

Loop Cut¶

Number of Cuts Wheel or PageUp / PageDown

After activating the tool, but before confirming initial loop location, you can increase and decrease the number of cuts to create, past entering a number with the keyboard, scrolling Wheel or using PageUp and PageDown.

Annotation

When creating multiple loops, these cuts are uniformly distributed in the original face loop, and you lot will not be able to command their positions.

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Preview of multiple edge loops.

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Effect of using multiple cuts.

Smoothness Alt-Cycle

Smoothing causes edge loops to be placed in an interpolated position, relative to the confront it is added to, causing them to be shifted outwards or inward by a given per centum, like to the Subdivide Smooth tool. When non using smoothing, new vertices for the new border loop are placed exactly on the pre-existing edges. This keeps subdivided faces flat, merely can distort geometry, particularly when using Subdivision Surfaces. Smoothing tin can help maintain the curvature of a surface once it is subdivided.

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Added edge loops without smoothing.

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Same edge loops, only with smoothing value.

Falloff
Falloff blazon for Smoothness, changes the shape of the profile.

Edge Slide¶

Even Due east
Just available for single border loops. This matches the shape of the edge loop to ane of the side by side edge loops. (See Edge Slide tool for details.)
Flip F
When Fifty-fifty is enabled, this flips the target border loop to lucifer. (Run across Edge Slide tool for details.)

Commencement Edge Slide¶

Reference

Fashion: Edit Mode
Panel: Toolbar ‣ Tools ‣ Mesh Tools ‣ Add together: Showtime Edge Slide
Hotkey: Shift-Ctrl-R

Add two border loops on either side of selected loops.

Cap Endpoint
Extends the loop by creating triangles at endpoints.
Edge Slide
See Edge Slide tool.

Subdivide Edge-Ring¶

Reference

Mode: Edit Mode
Panel: Mesh ‣ Edges ‣ Subdivide Edge-Ring

Take an border band, and subdivide with interpolation options.

Options
See Bridge Border Loops.