Ripping off multiple edges at once

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Hello again,

I was wondering if it’s possible to rip multiple edges/faces as seen on the picture below. If I try that using rip tool [R] it doesn’t work, I can rip only each “slice” at a time. Is it somehow possible to rip all the selected faces at once?

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/4610/64442356.jpg

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I don’t know if there’s a way to rip all those edges at once, but it looks like you have a perfect circle. If that’s true, then you could use the spin duplicate tool to recreate the shape, but with separated slices.

  1. Put the cursor in the middle of the circle
  2. delete all but one slice
  3. use the spin duplicate tool to duplicate that one slice as many times as you have slices now.
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I don’t think so, but I guess you could separate them with the P key, then re-join the meshes.