Polygon Index In Viewport?

Atom · August 19, 2014, 9:15am

At one point we were able to view the polygon index in the viewport when a mesh is in edit mode.

Is that still possible in 2.71?

mziskandar · August 19, 2014, 9:28am

No. But I wish that Blender have this function. Not just for viewing but rearrange the index. Its going to be very useful in ‘Build modifier’.

AIBlender · August 19, 2014, 11:36am

Hi,

Apologies if I am misunderstanding the question but do you mean the Index Order numers?

In 2.71 they are disabled by default but they can be enabled in a couple of ways:

In the Python Console type:

bpy.app.debug = True

Then toggle into Edit Mode and goto the Mesh Display Panel and tick the indices options

You can also start Blender from the command line with the --debug option and again go into
edit mode and then to the Mesh Display Panel and select the indices option.

There is also an add called the Index Visualizer Addon which you can get here:

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/zeffii/5674332

view3d_idx_view.py

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Which when enabled will add extra option to the N Panel, it can not only display vertex index
number but also edge and face index numbers.

RickyBlender · August 19, 2014, 11:45am

the bpy.app.debug = True

looks interesting and did not know it could show indices !

nice little trick !

thanks

happy bl