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| Posted by sjb007 at Sep 30, 2023, 1:22:15 AM |
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Re: I may have bought the wrong thing :-( The super, super basic instruction in Blender: 1. Import your model. 2. Select it with left click in the 3D view. It should get an orange outline1. 3. Go into edit mode by pressing Tab. 4. Press 1 (number one, but not on the NumPad) to select by Vertices. 5. Select (left click) one of the black vertices (points) in your model. It should go white. 6. Press l (L as in letter) to select the linked vertices. Hopefully a discrete part of the main objects vertices should should go orange. 7. Press p and separate by selection to another object. 8. Select the new object and give it a sensible name. 9. Rinse and repeat. You might want to separate multiple mesh parts into a single object. You can shift select multiple points on different parts to separate them into their own multipart mesh. Alternatively separate everything into individual objects, then select multiple object and press Ctrl-j to join them into a single object. You can also use many other tools (i.e. box select) to select points, but that's the basic principle and that should get you started. The above gives you most control, but is slow and tedious. An alternative is to change 5, 6 & 7: 5. Press a to select all vertices in the model. All vertices go orange. 6. Skip this step. 7. Press p and separate by loose parts. This may or may not work depending on how this model is constructed and imported. HTH |
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