How to create mesh with specified number of vertices/side and columns and rows?

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Greetings,

There are so many buttons, menus, fields etc, it is extremely difficult to find the ones for what you want to do.

How do you create mesh or object with a specified number of vertices or sides, and columns and rows?

Thanks

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Spacebar > Add > Mesh ?

3

“Spacebar > Add > Mesh ?”

Thanks. That let’s me pick a shape, but it doesn’t prompt me for the number of vertices and columns and rows.

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Spacebar > Add > Mesh > Plane.
Switch to Edit Mode Hot Key [Tab].
Select Mode to Edge from icon or Hot Key [Tab] + [Ctrl].
Hot Key [A] to deselect all edges.
Select top and bottom edge of plane.
Hot Key [W] to bring up Special functions.
Select Subdivide Multi and enter number of division, select [Ok].

The plane will get divided by the number you entered; in this case the number of columns. Now do the same for all of the vertical edges to get the rows.

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neuroplulse, this is the most basic stuff. If you want to use blender please look at the manual and read/watch tutorials or you will struggle just trying without any knowledge.
Manual http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual
Essential Blender book http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Books/Essential_Blender
Noon to Pro wikibook http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro
Videotutorials http://www.blendercookie.com/
Blender bassics video tutorials http://blenderunderground.com/2007/07/18/blender-basics-part-1-video-tutorial-completed/

Richard

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Thank you so very much!

Blender is so unintuitive and user-unfriendly it makes me cry tears of frustration :frowning: