Welding problem

[MrZasen]

well this is not a problem at all.
If you are a good modeler, you should know that when sketchup exports models, they get unwelded at all, so I would like to know a way to weld all the unwelded vertices in a faster way than welding one by one.

[CuCu]

can you post a pic about it ?

[MrZasen]

[Oleg]

select all vertices, pick Modify\Submesh\Weld. Expand it's options.
Enable "Multy target mode" there;
set up angle precision (smaller value = less smoothness; bigger value = more smoothness);
set up distance precision (a pretty small value will fit your needs here)
set up uv distance precision (1.0 is ok here).

click in viewport to weld vertices in specified percision limits; If you unsatisfied, you can press undo, change settings and apply again.

[Kotton]

is there a way to weld verts without it joining and therefore messing up the UV mapping?

for example in Max, we can weld verts on a UV seam, but it won't modify the UV.. but in Zm we can't
is there a way around this, or is this something that needs to be mentioned in the Zm3 wish list topic?

[Oleg]

move with snapping?

[Kotton]

well no.. I meant actually weld them without messing up the UV

when I said "without it joining" it was in reference to the the UV joining when the verts are welded

[Oleg]

nope. uv is stored per-vertex and you can't get phsically a single vertex without messing it's uv.

[Kotton]

DAMN - so.. wish list for Zm3?

or is that something only the 'big boiz' can pull off? o.O (Max, Maya, Blender, ect)

[Oleg]

looks like the second choice.