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Delete Menu Vertex Page 5-1
DELETE MENU:
Function FastKey Page
================= ===================================== ====
All X-A 5-2
Vertices X-V 5-2
Edges X-E 5-2
Faces X-F 5-2
Dup Faces X-D 5-3
Dup Edges X-X 5-3
Useless Edges X-U 5-4
Useless Points X-P 5-4
Internal Faces X-I 5-4
Safety is On/Off X-S 5-4
Nearly all the delete functions will act upon selected objects. A
selected vertex appears white, a deselected vertex is black. A
selected edge is an edge with the vertices at either end being
selected. A selected face has all three corner vertices selected.
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Delete: Delete All Vertex Page 5-2
Function: Delete All
FastKey: X-A
Description:
Delete all will delete everything currently in memory. You will first
be presented with a requestor asking if you are sure about deleting
everything.
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Delete: Delete Selected
Function: Delete Selected Vertices
Fast Key: X-V
Description:
This enables you to delete only the vertices you have selected. no
requester appears asking if it is okay to do so, but you may Undo this
if you have set undo to be on.
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Delete: Delete Edges
Function: Delete Selected Edges
FastKey: X-E
Description:
Only edges with both vertices selected will be deleted. If any face is
associated with any selected edge, it will also be deleted.
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Delete: Delete Faces
Function: Delete Selected Faces
FastKey: X-F
Description:
Only faces with all three vertices selected will be deleted. Any
edges are also selected wil be left intact.
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Delete: Delete Duplicate Faces Vertex Page 5-3
Function: Delete Duplicate Faces
FastKey: X-D
Description:
Since many file formats save each face twice, you may wish to delete
the duplicate ones while editing your objects. Be warned, this routine
is not converted to assembly language yet, so it may take a little
time to execute. It may take up to 20 minutes to execute when you have
15000 faces in memory.
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Delete: Delete Duplicate Edges
Function: Delete Duplicate Edges
FastKey: X-X
Description:
Similar to deleting duplicate faces, this routine will free up memory
and go a long way towards "cleaning up" an object. This routine is
written in assembly, ans should operate much faster than the face
deleting function.
Normal operation should not require this function. However, reading
some file types may require this function. Check out the EULR: number
in the information display. This number represents the total number of
vertices plus the total number of faces, minus the total number of
edges in an object. If this number is extremely high, or low (say
-145), then you may try this function, and delete duplicate faces, to
clean up the object.
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Delete: Delete Useless Edges Page 5-4
Function: Delete Useless Edges
FastKey: X-U
Description:
When I did the Overlap-Fuse routine, I decided to delete the unneeded
faces between the fused objects. A side effect of this was a routine
called "Delete Useless Edges". A useless edge is one which is not part
of any face. This routine does not require the edges to be selected,
so be careful. You may want to use this function after doing an
extrude, as currently there are "useless" edges in the center of
certain extruded objects.
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Delete: Delete Useless Points
Function: Delete Useless Points
FastKey: X-P
Description:
This is similar to delete useless edges, in that it will delete all
vertices, selected or not, which are not part of an edge or face.
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Delete: Delete Internal Faces
Function: Delete Internal Faces
FastKey: X-I
Description:
This command used to delete all faces and the interbal edges associated
with them. Now, it will delete all selected faces, and the edges which
are no longer needed by those faces.
For flat objects, this is a nice way to quickly create an outline of your
object, suitable for extrusion, lathing, etc.
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Delete: Safety On/Off
Function: Safety On/Off
FastKey: X-S
Description:
This command will toggle the Delete-All verify requester. When the
option is ON, the requester will always appear when you ask to delete
all from the work space. Otherwise, everything will be deleted, and
you will have no chance to cancel the operation (although you can
still UNDO it, if you have undo on)