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remains active for connecting more pairs of
borders. To exit Bridge mode, right-click the
active viewport or click the Bridge button.
Note: Bridge always creates a str aight-line
connection between border pairs. To make
thebridgeconnectionfollowacontour,apply
modelingtoolsasappropriate
after creating the
bridge. For example, bridge two borders, and then
use
Bend (page 1–541) .
B ridge S ettings—Opens the Bridge dialog (page
1–1068)
,whichletsyouconnectpairsofborders
via interactive manipulation.
Connect—Creates new edges between pairs of
selected border edges. The edges are connected
from their midpoints.
You can connect only edges on the same polygon.
Connect will not let the new edges cross. Thus, for
example, if you select all four edges of a four-sided
polygon and then click Connect, only n eig hboring
edges are connected, resulting in a diamond
pattern.
Connect S ettings —Lets you preview the
Connectandspecifythenumberofedgesegments
created by the operation. To increase the mesh
resolution around the new edge, increase the
Connect Edge Segments setting.
Create Sha pe—Afterselectingoneormore
borders, click this button to create a spline shape or
shapes from the selected edges, using the current
settings from the Create Shape Sett ings dialog (see
follow ing).
The new shape’s pivot is placed at the same
location as that of the Edit Poly object.
Create Sha pe S ett ings—Lets you preview the
Create Shape function, name the shape, and set
it to Smooth or Linear.
Edit Tri[angulation]—Lets you modify how selected
polygons are subdivided into tr iang les by dr awing
internal edges.
To manually edit triangulation, turn on this
button. The hidden edges appear. Click a polygon
vertex. A rubber-band line appears, attached to
the cursor. Click a non-adjacent vertex to create a
new triangulation for the polygon.
Tip: For easier editing of triangulation, use the
Turn command instead (see following).
Tu rn—Lets you mo dify how polygons are
subdivided into triangles by clicking diagonals.
When you activate Turn, the
diagonals (page
3–1022)
become visible as dashed lines in
wireframeandedged-facesviews.InTurnmode,
click a diagonal to change its position. To exit Turn
mode, right-click in the viewport or click the Turn
button again.
Each diagonal has only two available positions
at any given time, so clicking a diagonal tw ice in
succession simply returns it to its orig inal posit ion.
But chang ing the position of a nearby diagonal
can make a different alternate position available
to a diagonal.
For more information on how to use Turn with
the enh anced Cut tool, see
this procedure (page
1–1035)
.