Display selected verts or faces

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Is there a way to display the count of the vertexes selected?
I’m switching from Maya to Blender, in Maya there is a way to display the amount of selected verts. Does Blender have that option?

I ask because it appears I am not welding correctly. When I applied a SubD, I see holes in the mesh…it appears the verts are not welded.
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  1. To show the number of selected vertices, you just need to enable statistics.

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  1. merge the proximity points with Merge. (Hotkey M)

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You may also try Mesh → Merge by Distance or the weld modifier… or enable auto merge vertices at the top right… right from meshsymmetry (Butterfly like icon) XYZ…

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Thank you, oo_1942. Thank you, Okidoki. I clearly need to learn more about Blender.

  1. It appears, when I select verts in shaded mode, I was not selecting the verts behind the front face verts. I needed to select all the verts in Wireframe/X Ray mode, to select back face verts.

  2. Then the “Merge by Distance” you both recommended worked; I can Sub D and it works.

Another Question: Is there a good way to select front and back facing verts in shaded mode? Or do I always need to select verts in Wireframe/X Ray mode?

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I’m not sure what exatly you mean…

  • different facing normals ?? Then there is the face orientation overlay…
  • select similar normals ? then ther is … select simiar… normals
  • slecting without X-rays also only selects “front faced vertex/edges/polys”

so…
You may have to elaborate this to get a more suited answer.

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If you want to select the whole mesh, or mesh island, then hover the cursor over the mesh and press L. This selects all Linked points on the mesh.
Or press A to select All.

You are using backfacing in a confusing manner. In Blender, backfacing is the inner face, the opposite of the face normal.

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The usual method is to activate X-Ray (a little annoying process) :slightly_smiling_face:

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Or try Addon at the link below (free)

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Thank you, so much.

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