My confusion: help please

[curbsidebandit]

I’m not sure what’s happening but my suggestion is to adjust the tolerance slider to see how it affects the merge. Worse comes to worse, drop the tolerance to zero and draw the polygons yourself. The only idea I have that’s going wrong is maybe your scene is fudged. If that’s the case you could export the object as an OBJ and load it into a new scene. If the scene is more complex than a couple of objects, you could also merge the whole scene into a new scene in a new project.

Hope that helps you

[Tekano]

hello,

do not turn on blend in the merge - just merge on its own - then select edges to be joined, right click and select 'bridge boundary edges'

eg..

NewScene
CreatePrim "Grid", "MeshSurface"
Duplicate "grid", , 2, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, , , , , , , , , , , 0
Translate , 8.92153962088826, 0, 0, siRelative, siLocal, siObj, siXYZ, , , , , , , , , , 0
ActivateObjectSelTool
ActivateObjectSelTool
AddToSelection "grid", , True
ApplyGenOp "MeshMerge", , "grid1,grid", 3, siPersistentOperation, siKeepGenOpInputs
SetValue "polymsh.polymsh.mergemesh.tolerance", 0
DeleteGeneratorInputs "polymsh.polymsh.mergemesh"
ActivateEdgeSelTool
ActivateEdgeSelTool
AddToSelection "polymsh.edge[272]", , True
AddToSelection "polymsh.edge[275]", , True
AddToSelection "polymsh.edge[277]", , True
AddToSelection "polymsh.edge[279]", , True
AddToSelection "polymsh.edge[281]", , True
AddToSelection "polymsh.edge[271,273,274,276,278-LAST]", , True
RemoveFromSelection "polymsh.edge[237-271,273,274,276,278,280,282,284,286]"
AddToSelection "polymsh.edge[0,1,3-5,7,8,10,11,13,14,16,17,19,20,22,23]", , True
RemoveFromSelection "polymsh.edge[1-3,5,6,8,9,11,12,14,15,17,18,20,21,23-25,27,28,30,32,34,36,38,40]"
ApplyTopoOp "BridgeEdges", "polymsh.edge[0,4,7,10,13,16,19,22,272,275,277,279,281,283,285,LAST]", siUnspecified, siPersistentOperation

[XraySpex]

Hey thanks guys, that really helped me out. I got it all merged together now. You guys are awsome!

[XraySpex]

Somehow throughout stumbling around on XSI I seemed to have changed the pivot location of the transform cursor. I see that I can click on the yellow arrow under it while I hold alt but when I go to reset it sets it to the bottom of my object, not to the default location in the center. Is there some way that I can get this back to the default location that it is in when you first open the program?

I tried moving it and locking it but then when I select a different object the transform cursor (don't know what else to call it) stays on the other object where I locked it. I would really like to know how to make it so that it shows up in the center on the object that I click on.

Thanks again for all the help, it is really great that there is this forum here and that you guys help out newbs like me.

-X

[grahamef]

If you've moved the object's center with respect to its point positions, there will be a Center operator in the construction stack. You can select it in an explorer and delete it. If you've frozen the stack, then you can use Transform > Move Center to Vertices or Move Center to Bounding Box but there's no guarantee that it will be the original center position.

On the other hand if you've set a permanent object pivot, you can reset it on the Pivot tab of the object's Local Transform property editor (Ctrl+K).

[XraySpex]

Awsome, I did it with the "move center to vertices". I don't think that is the exact center but it doesn't really matter I dont think. Thanks a TON!

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