Efficiency of using Inset

[plasmavoyage]

Hi,

was there any specific reason you used the Inset tool instead of removing the top face alltogether and then Extruding the entire cup out- or inwards?

Obviously that would have to happen before you model the handle, but is there a downside to extruding the entire mesh like that?

It would save the time it took to readjust the inner edgeloops to match the outer ones, no?

[Jonathan Lampel]

Sure, if you did that before making the handles, it would be faster! I can’t think of any downside that would have. 

[Jason Hamje]

Does that mess up the normals?  It looks to me like if you extrude the back face of a plane then the normals end up backwards, but I’m not sure.

[Jonathan Lampel]

It might initially, but you can correct them pretty quickly with Ctrl+N (Make Normals Consistent).

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