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Patchwork 3D 2024 X7

Surface groupings

Merge and unmerge surfaces

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Function

Description

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Merge surfaces

Allows you to create a single surface from the selected surfaces. This function share UV unfolding and lightmaps in particular.

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Unmerge surfaces

Retrieves initial surfaces from Merge Surfaces function.

Warning

UV unfolding and lightmaps are lost with the functions below:

  • Merge surfaces

  • Unmerge surfaces

Create and delete a saved selection

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Function

Description

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Create a saved selection

Creates a group of objects in which all of the selected objects will keep their initial states. This is called creating a saved selection.

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Delete a saved selection

Deletes a saved selection.

Note

  • Create a saved selection saves the selection in the Selection editor. Cf. Selections (Editor).

  • Doing an operation on a saved selection it amounts to doing an operation on each selection of the set.

  • Clicking on a surface of a set selects all objects.

  • Unlike the merge of surfaces this feature keeps all the properties of the surfaces.

  • Compared to a multiple selection, this feature adds the ability to assign a material to a saved selection.

Below are the shortcuts for creating and deleting a set of objects.

Function

Shortcut

Create a saved selection

Ctrl + G

Delete a saved selection

Ctrl + Shift + G

Note

A surface can belong to several sets. In this case a contextual menu appears to specify which saved selection to select.

Saved selections can then contain kinematic objects, Bézier paths and mergers of surfaces.

Visual representation

A multiple selection of surfaces.

A multiple selection of surfaces

With the Merge Surfaces feature, the different geometries form only one surface and therefore have the same color. The selection box is white.

With the Merge surfaces feature, the different geometries form only one surface and therefore have the same color.

The selection box is white.

With the "Create a saved selection" feature all the objects keep their own color. The selection box is pink.

With the Create a saved selection feature all the objects keep their own color.

The selection box is pink.