• Maxon Cinema 4D

  Best way to get rid of internal edges of an object?

  Posted by Dean Chapman on October 14, 2012 at 2:40 am

  Hey guys,

  I have an object with a million cuts (edges) throughout the shape.

  I’d like to simply get rid of all the internal edges, leaving a nice whole object.

  I tried select the whole object and hitting melt….that didn’t seem to do anything.

  I didn’t have too much luck with weld either.

  Any suggestions?

  Attached is a pic, as well as the scene file.

  Thanks,

  Dean

  

  4792_weldtest.c4d.zip

  Brian Jones replied 13 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Brian Jones

  October 14, 2012 at 8:47 pm

  you want to remove the extra lines and leave just quads? I think it can only be done by hand. I’m guessing you used a fracture plugin of some sort on the object then removed pieces and Connect/Deleted/Optimized the remainder to make it one piece again.
  The only way I can think of to keep it clean is to fracture a copy of the object select the pieces you want to remove and Boole them from the original (make the pieces slightly thicker first).

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