Forum: Blender


Subject: Tip & Tricks

Lobo3433 opened this issue on Mar 06, 2015 · 66 posts


LuxXeon posted Fri, 20 March 2015 at 6:54 PM

Modeling - Access Precise Mesh Information In Edit Mode

Select an object in your scene, and acquire useful information about it quickly in the viewport, by accessing the Mesh Display roll-out of the Properties Panel ( Hotkey N).  Some of the quick technical information you can access about your object includes Face, Edge, and Vertex Normals Direction (useful for orientation of your polygons), Edge Angles and Length, Face Area, and Face Angle.  This information can be invaluable for precision modeling, and overall success in performing many modeling operations on your mesh.  For example, the face area information can be used to identify faces which can be selected by the Select Similar Area tool; and the edge length feature is very useful for modeling mathematically, with precise rotation, or for creating very predictable and non-self-intersecting bevels on dense topology.

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