where is the mesh.faces attribute?

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edges, vertices ok, but faces??? Thanks Paolo

2

hi, mesh.faces is mesh.polygons in bmesh.

3

thanks, perfect, and tessfaces what is it?

4

It is a collection of triangles and quads converted from the mesh’s polygons. To use it, you have to call my_mesh.update(calc_tessface=True) first. Quite tricky, I haven’t find a single note about it in the documentation.

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emu: i wonder where you looked at
http://www.blender.org/documentation/blender_python_api_2_63_11/info_gotcha.html#ngons-and-tessellation-faces

btw. it is save to use:

if not me.tessfaces and me.polygons:
    me.update(calc_tessface=True)
    # or: me.calc_tessface()

Once tessfaces are available, they are kept in sync with the model (always up to date using Python)