Albatross 3D - Faces

Face toolbox

Faces Toolbox. A mesh must be selected before activating this toolbox. It is only possible to work on the faces of one mesh at a time. Merge the meshes if you need to work on the faces of more than one mesh. The popup menu contains other face selection tools (like the connected faces, or all the faces with a given material).
rc Key: tbxFaces


rc Key: faceEditGroup

Select faces
rc Key: faceSelect
shortkey: s
'Shift' to add/remove the pointed face to the selection list, otherwise the pointed face is selected.
Select faces by Rectangle
rc Key: faceRecSel
shortkey: r

Select faces by Area
rc Key: faceLasso
shortkey: l

Move the selected faces
rc Key: faceMove
shortkey: M

Rotate the selected face
rc Key: faceRotate
shortkey: O
Rotates the selected face. Drag the mouse to rotate the face or use the params area.
Scale the selected faces
rc Key: faceScale
shortkey: S
Scales the selected faces. Drag the mouse horizontally (or use the params area) to change the scale factor.
Add a Texture projector for the selected faces
rc Key: faceProjector
shortkey: F6
Creates a new texture projector for the selected faces. In order to edit a created texture projector, use the texture projector tool in the mesh toolbox.
Set the material for the selected faces
rc Key: faceMaterial
shortkey: F5
Set/edit the material for the selected faces.
Remove the selected faces
rc Key: faceDel
shortkey: Delete
Removes the selected faces. A hole is created in the mesh. No vertex are deleted (i.e. if a vertex is shared by only deleted faces, it remains into the mesh).
Create a new face
rc Key: faceNew
shortkey: a
Opens the create face toolbox. There the user points vertices to create a new face.
Flip the normal of the selected faces
rc Key: faceFlip
shortkey: F
Flips the selected faces (so that they can be seens from the other side).

rc Key: faceDivideGroup

Add a vertex in the center and split the selected faces
rc Key: faceMid
A vertex is added in the center of each selected faces. Then, this vertex is linked to each edge of the face.
Add small faces inside the selected faces
rc Key: faceSmall
Adds small faces inside the selected faces. The size of the small face can be change by dragging horizontaly the mouse, or in the params area.
Sudivide the selected faces
rc Key: faceSubdivide
Sudivides the selected faces. Each edge of the face is splitted in 2, a vertex is added in the face center, and the mid edge vertices are linked to the face center vertex.
Extrude the selected face?
rc Key: faceExtrude
shortkey: e
Extrudes the selected faces.
Extrude the selected faces along a curve
rc Key: faceCurve

Split the selected faces
rc Key: faceSplit

Convert the selected faces to planar convex faces
rc Key: faceConvex
Converts the selected faces to planar convex faces. To be rendered correctly, a face must be planar and convex. Nevertheless, it can be usefull, during the modelling process, to have concave not planar faces, so Albatross 3D allows to create and work with them. This tools must be used before exporting.
Create a new mesh with the selected faces
rc Key: faceToObj
Creates a new mesh with the selected faces.
Create a Bridge between the last 2 selected faces
rc Key: faceBridge
Creates a bridges between the last 2 selected faces. The face must have the same number of vertices. To create a bridge between 2 different meshes, first merge the meshes into one mesh, in the mesh toolbox.
Create new faces in the holes of the mesh
rc Key: faceFillHoles


rc Key: faceVisibilityGroup

Hide selected faces
rc Key: faceHide
shortkey: I
Hides the selected faces. This command can be usefull when the user wants to work on part of a mesh difficult to access/view.
Unhide all hided faces
rc Key: faceUnhide
shortkey: U
Unhides all hided faces. This command is also available in the menu 'Edit -> Show all faces'.

 
 
The other commands available in the popup menu are:

All Connected Faces

rc Key: faceAllConnected
shortkey: A

Connected Faces

rc Key: faceConnected
shortkey: C

Select By Material

rc Key: faceByMaterial

Select by Smooth Group

rc Key: faceBySmoothgroup

Select Visible

rc Key: faceVisible

Select by Projector

rc Key: faceByProjector

Select by Statistics

rc Key: faceStatistics

Loop

rc Key: faceLoop
shortkey: L

All Vertices

rc Key: faceAllVertices

Shared Vertices

rc Key: faceSharedVertices

All Edges

rc Key: faceAllEdges

Shared Edges

rc Key: faceSharedEdges