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Smoothing around windows

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Hi,
Ok had this small problem for a while and have never really solved it. After I have cut passenger windows from a tube and placed poly's to re-skin around the window I end up with the skin wrinkled (only very slightly but it can still be seen if you look hard enough) Does anybody know how to correct this or is there another way around this?

Paul
 
Hi Felix, no didnt use the boolean method as it is only a last resort for me. I did it the ye olde fashoned way. I hope this will show what I mean

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Just out of interest I have a similar problem, but by using the boolean method.

How would I clean up excess vertices?

After doing the cut, when I apply 'polygon smoothing' it looks terrible. :eek:
 
Sorry that I haven't been around this thread in a long time.

CLeaning up (vertices) after an FSDS boolean or similar cut is basically an exercise in patience.

My first action is to split off the group of polygons that I have to clean up into their own separate part, and actually save the part and reload it (or as others would do - simply copy and paste) into a new (inactive) model page.

That way I have a clean part, uncluttered by the rest of the model.

THe cleaning up process is simply to join, or delete vertices that are unnecessary, and really don't add anything. It's really visualizing the wireframe mesh and manually deleting points and rebuilding the surrounding polygons. A lot of tedious, but ultimately rewarding, work.
 
Thanks for that Felix. :)

As a beginner I'll maybe limit my use of boolean as much as possible until I'm on maybe my second plane. I've still so much to learn but I'm enjoying it, as long as I take it slowly. :D
 
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