Blender 3.6.1 Edge loops not working like in video, Explain?

[James Smith]

I ran into an issue where I tried to make an edge loop like at video marker 1:50 but all I saw was vertices no edges. I was still able to make the shape, but it bothers me that the edge lines do not show, could someone tell me why?

[Martin Bergwerf]

Hi @coldforge_010 ,

Well that should bother you!

You have made a (possibly essential) mistake somewhere; maybe you have hidden part of your Mesh (ALT+H to get the hidden parts back), or part of the Mesh is actually missing, or you have ‘double Vertices’ (M > Merge > By Distance), or…?

The best thing to do, is to start from scratch.

[Martin Bergwerf]

Maybe you have your Mouse over an Edge, instead of over the Face:

[James Smith]

I just did what you said, deleted the plane and started over, it worked, maybe I was just tired 😴 

[James Smith]

But, to ask this question I reproduce the problem again, first I beveled the vertices, then the loop cuts and I could not make the loop cuts properly, the vertices would show but not the edges when making the cut.

[Martin Bergwerf]

Ah, I see!

If you Bevel the Vertices, you create a so-called N-Gon. And Edge Loops only go through Quads (a Face with 4 Vertices).

[Omar Domenech]

You can always watch the mesh modeling bootcamp, it’s there where you’ll learn all the rules of modeling:

https://cgcookie.com/courses/blender-mesh-modeling-bootcamp

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