How can I get good hard surface edge flow without using the knife tool?

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Greetings everybody!

I’m trying to make this fluorescent tube ceiling lamp. I’m using the knife tool to get good edge flow:

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As you can see, I used the knife tool to bridge all the cyllinder vertices into the flat edge at the base.

How can I go from the model on the left to the one on the right WITHOUT manually using the knife tool and tracing edges one by one?

Thanks!

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Delete the NGons on the Sides and make loop cuts on the bottom plane. Number of cuts will be the number of vertices in the half circle minus 2. Then use bridge to fill in the sides.

However, the way you’re doing this and the way I just said doesn’t make for good geometry. But I’m not sure what you’re end goal is…

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Extrude, scale Z, snap, merge and fill:

… is an option.

Good luck.

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