I selected many consecutive edge loops, but the vertex groups highly all the edges in between them, how do I save just the edge selection itself so that it doesn’t also select the orthogonal edges between them when I reselect it?

Simply put you can’t, because it’s a vertex group, not an edge group. So where a vertex joins to an unselected edge, but then hte next edge is selected, all vertices are classed as being in the group. The only way to avoid this, is to add a single vertex in the middle of the unselected edge, which w…

Grab it while you can: [image] Forgotten tools Released Scripts and Themes Add-on updated to v0.4.0 (see changes below). Over the years I’ve had various scripts and snippets accumulating on my hard drive. As I’ve been away from Blender for quite a while, they became forg…

Sorry for necro, but for anyone else googling and finding this thread, one way to do this without addons is by marking edges as sharp, seam, crease or bevel (Use ctrl+e or Transform menu in Item tab of “N” hotkey toolbar to do this). Then to restore selection select one of the edges in your original…

Chat GPT generated this plugin, that seems to work for me. It breaks if you edit anything on the mesh though. Simply paste the script in a new text in the text editor window and run it. The save and restore edges buttons should appear in the Tools menu in the Sidebar (Press “N”). import bpy import…

Save edge selections as vertex groups?

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Stan_Pancakes (Stanislav Blinov) November 26, 2019, 12:43pm 3

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