Problem with making faces

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#1

I have a few questions regarding making faces between objects.

  1. Lets say you have a cylinder and a sphere. You half the sphere so that you can join it to the end of the cylinder. You select both objects and press Ctrl J. Is there a quicker way of creating faces between the objects, other than selecting 4 vertices at a time and pressing Ctrl F?

  2. You half a sphere, is there a way to create a face over the open part of the sphere?

Thats basically all my questions. :smiley:

Iā€™m just surprised there is not an easier way of making faces.

#2

Not as far as I knowā€¦ F is make faces and shift-F is fill ā€¦
Also ā€¦ why attach half a sphere to a cylingerā€¦

Just cut the uv sphere in half and extrude the last row of vertices to pull it into a cylinderā€¦

md01

#3

That was just an example. :slight_smile: But good point. :wink:

Okay, here is a question, sort of to do with faces.

I have got a bezier circle curve. I then made a post and used dupliframes to make a multiple posts in a ring.

It looked good. :wink:

But then when I rendered it, I discovered that the bezier curve showed up in the render :o.

I thought that the curve was just a path that didnā€™t show up in the render.

So now I have this big circle in the middle of it. :frowning:

How do I make the curve invisible? Or, no fill? :expressionless:

#4

In object mode you select your model which is made from a bezier curve and press ALT + C then you convert it to a mesh. I had the same problem not so long ago.

#5

If I convert it to a mesh, my dupliframes disappear. :expressionless:

What else can I do?

Or am I doing something wrong?

#6

If Iā€™m understanding this scenario rightly, if you select all those lovely columns and then press Ctrl + Shift + A, you can make the Dupliframes ā€œrealā€.

This means that they will now be mesh.

Then you can delete the bezier curve altogether without impact.

Regards
Caleb

#7

Or, you can disable the back and front buttons in the editbuttons when the beziercircle is in editmode.