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Editable Mesh (Face/Polygon/Element) 1007
Top: Selected faces in Perspective view
Bottom: Same faces aligned to Front view
Grid Align—Aligns the selected faces to the current
construction plane. The current plane is specified
by the active viewport in the case of the home grid.
When using a grid object, the current plane is the
active grid object.
Mak e Planar—Forces all selected faces to become
coplanar. The plane’s normal is the average surface
normal of the selected faces.
OneapplicationforMakePlanarismakingaflat
side on an object. Normally, you would use a
contiguous selection set. If the selection includes
facesonvariouspartsoftheobject,thefacesare
stil l made planar, but with distorting effects on the
rest of the geometry.
Collapse—Collapses selected faces by welding their
vertices to the vertex in the center.
Sur face Properties rollout
These controls let you work with face normals,
material IDs, smo othing groups and vertex colors.
Normals group
Flip—Reverses the direction of the surface normals
of the selected faces.
Unif y—Flipsthenormalsofanobjectsothatthey
all point in the same direction, usually outward.
This is useful for restoring an object’s faces to