3 and 5 sided polies

[webster]

Select the Object
Polygon --> Cleanup ()

change the dropdown to "Selct geometry and check "4-sided polygons"

Now you get all 4-sided faces

press "f" so the object is completly visible

press shift and drag over the complete object, so selection is inverted


Anyone knows other possibilities?

[womanonfire]

you can always use Edit/Invert Selection to uh... invert the selection.

and a quick guess at the 3-5 sided poly selection problem: under my Edit Polygons menu i have this thing:
Edit Polygons/Selection/SelectionConstraints...
there is an option here (under Properties) to select only tris, quads, or n-gons

not sure that this was part of the original maya distro or if it got added with the maya poly/bonus game tools whatnot download from a/w :surprised

[JasonA]

I've found that if you just convert to subd's temporarily, you'll see where all of the 3/5 sided polygons are. The meshing won't be clean in those areas, its quite apparent. then just undo and go fix the poly..

[(B-HOLM)]

yea I've found out the same but it didn't work all the time, 'cause I saw some errors and there was only 4 sided polies....then I tried the first method and there still wan't anything there...so I'm not sure it's as good as the first one...

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