topic How to smooth out mesh around cut in Modeling

How to smooth out mesh around cut

Anonymous — Thu, 25 May 2023 14:56:32 GMT

I have drawn a mesh and cut out an area by using a slab and SEO's with upward extrusion. This has left a bit of a hole in my mesh. Is there an easy way to smooth out the mesh around the cut around the building? the only way i can think of is to draw extra contour lines and add them to the mesh to show the fall of the ground towards the building. Im hoping theres an easier way!

Re: How to smooth out mesh around cut

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 13:56:28 GMT

laz89 wrote:
I have drawn a mesh and cut out an area by using a slab and SEO's with upward extrusion. This has left a bit of a hole in my mesh. Is there an easy way to smooth out the mesh around the cut around the building? the only way i can think of is to draw extra contour lines and add them to the mesh to show the fall of the ground towards the building. Im hoping theres an easier way!

it seems you are trying to model a sudden drop with your terrain. Don't use SEO . instead offset the rim (the line that follows the natural ground) of the excavation by 1mm, and this line select to add points with no surface fitting. The nodes of the second line will get zero z values. Then select this embeded line on mesh and give all the nodes the elevation you want them to have. So you will have two embeded lines on the mesh. One that follows ground and represents the rim of the excavation and a line offseted by 1mm, with certain and common node levels that will represent the toe. And this will show correctly the sudden drop.

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Re: How to smooth out mesh around cut

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 19:57:22 GMT

Hey thanks for the reply! Sounds good - how do i actually go about doing that? haha im quite new to mesh's.

Re: How to smooth out mesh around cut

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 06:45:01 GMT

laz89 wrote:
Hey thanks for the reply! Sounds good - how do i actually go about doing that? haha im quite new to mesh's.

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