I’m having a hard time cutting the grooves on the corners. I feel like there’s a more precise way to do it than knife the 4 corners, but struggle with subdivide. Is there a better approach than knife?

[Aaron Junod]

[Aaron Junod]

Awesome thank you very much!

[Alexander Khorkov]

Thanks. A perfect example!

[Alexander Rengel]

Thank you so much.

[Joseph Stout]

Thank you for this Explanation Jonathan!

[Ivan Makarov]

A small addition to the solution from Jonathan: use Select Mirror to quickly select the similar faces.

P.S. I used the Pie Menu addon for the Pie menus. It can be enabled here: Edit->User Preferences->Add-ons->Pie Menu

[Tester Bonus]

Thanks

[quel47]

This is a cool shortcut, you could also after selecting the area instead of mirror you could select same perimeter, although your way is slightly faster

[the_red_pill]

To quickly select the faces of all the corners simultaneously after you’ve subdivided, select the 3 faces around a corner, then:
Select -> Select Similar -> Face Regions
This will select all the additional 21 faces of the other corners in one fell swoop.

Then -to select all the insets of the cube at once, select one of the inset faces, then:
Select -> Select Similar -> Area

PS: I’m new to Blender and I’d like to know- is there a shortcut for the “Select” menu? I can see it becoming tedious having to move the mouse and actually clicking the Select menu item at the bottom everytime I need to.

[apadavano]

so helpful!

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