Using Bevel/Connect

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Hi all, I’m brand new to Blender and after having read some tutorials I have a few simple questions that are still nagging me! :smiley:

1. Is it possible to assign hotkeys to scripts?

I’m using the bevel center pretty often, but I do not want to open the scripts window everytime I need to bevel. Most likely I’d completely replace the internal bevel option with bevel center. Any ideas?

2. What is the best way to connect two vertices via an edge?

FKEY is almost what I need, but instead of splitting a face when connecting two vertices with a diagonal edge, it just creates a new edge, which lies over the face. I need something like a connect/split method.

3. I heard about an exporter plugin for NVIDIA Gelato.

Can someone please guide me to the correct download for windows? All I found was a corrupted .gz-archive, which for some strange reason I can not open.

Thanks! :slight_smile:

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#1) I don’t think so…yet
#2) Delete the face first, connect your vertices with FKEY, then remake the faces.
#3) I don’t know

Edit
Oh my, where are my manners today? Welcome to the forum!

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#2. Maybe you might use the Ctrl R or the knife to cut the plane.
You can also use subdivide an edge of a four sided plane and it will divide it into 3 tris. But again not diagonally in half.

To cut a four sided face corner to corner you can select the face then Ctrl T. Convert quads to triangles. Its under the mesh->faces menu.

Hope that helps
Iti