A lot of subdivision points

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October 9, 2020 at 11:43 am #12863
Martijn Somhorst
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Hello, I wanted to disturbed the web, with the random proportional edit mode. But i tend to have a lot of points in the straight lines that are point radial outward. So when i do what you show in you video, these lines become very spike. Can i reduce these points in an easy manner?
October 11, 2020 at 4:27 am #60748
Louis du Mont
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You could isolate them by selecting the straight lines, then shift-h, then merge by distance. ‘M’ and select ‘merge by distance’. A tooltip appears at the bottom left of the viewport where you can adjust the threshold to reduce the vertices.
October 12, 2020 at 9:36 am #60749
Martijn Somhorst
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mm well something different occurs here, when i open a new part, the vertex/face/edge selection with the icons top left is visible, and hitting m just works fine . when i open my spider file, these buttons are gone, and hitting m doesn’t do anything…where did i go wrong.. ? thanks in advance again!
October 12, 2020 at 11:29 am #60750
spikeyxxx
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Are you sure you’re in Edit Mode?
October 12, 2020 at 11:54 am #60751
Martijn Somhorst
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yes. i opened a new part and then they are back and the m-key does what it normally does. So not sure where to look…
October 12, 2020 at 11:59 am #60752
spikeyxxx
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Could you post a link to your problematic spider file? (Dropbox, Google drive or something like that…)
October 12, 2020 at 12:06 pm #60753
Martijn Somhorst
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can you download this one?

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AjNpy6d_em8Ykt40Bz3k7FvdloCROA?e=inCciY
October 12, 2020 at 12:28 pm #60754
spikeyxxx
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Yes, thank you.

You don’t see Vertex, Edge and Face Select modes, because your “Spiral” is a Curve, not a Mesh.

Maybe use Convert to Mesh?

I haven’t taken this course yet, so I don’t know why what is done… there is a decimate option for Curves, but that only works for Bezier Curves…
October 12, 2020 at 3:45 pm #60755
Martijn Somhorst
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thank you! I think where to look now. The thing was made from edges / extruded points and a skin modifier was added. So as i have applied that, converting to mesh does work and gives back the options, however it turn the skin into a tubular mesh so not quite the thing i was expecting. Learned something, thanks again!
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