Auto smooth not working

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I’ve tried this several times and I’ve looked at the blender manual’s description several times as well. I make something smooth and try using auto smooth, nothing. I turn on AS and then smooth it, nothing again. I try everything I can and for some reason AS never actually performs its damn function. Then I have to go and split faces just to get it to look good.

Am I doing something wrong?

2

You will see the result only for the render not the 3d view.

Try this :

  1. remove the default cube.
  2. add a cylinder with 32 vertices.
  3. exit edit mode
  4. make sure that the cylinder is selected
  5. click Set Smooth
  6. enable Auto Smooth. Keep the default angle of 30.
  7. render the scene.
3

That sucks. I can see the direct result if I split faces and smooth, which is helpful because I don’t need to spend all that time rendering. Is there any way for autosmooth to show up other than render?

4

split the edges ?

5

Either use the Edge split modifier: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/EdgeSplit_Modifier
Or in Edit mode, select the faces you want to leave solid and click Set Solid. http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/Mesh_Smoothing