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# 1 25-07-2011 , 03:59 PM

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When I smooth my hard surfaces found some type of knot, tried merging vertices, tried deling edge that attaches to vertices to re-draw but it wont delete, any ideas

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# 2 25-07-2011 , 04:03 PM

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Going to move this to the proper forum, because there arent any real 'progress' pictures to make it a real WIP thread.

When you merged the verts, what tolerance did you use?

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# 3 25-07-2011 , 04:49 PM

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The tolerance is quite high as I merged the vertices around the particular 1's displayed. but still left with the problem user added image

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# 4 25-07-2011 , 04:58 PM

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I think you will find the problem are the ones I high lighted merge them ..........dave

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# 5 25-07-2011 , 05:30 PM

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ok will get on it now user added image

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# 6 25-07-2011 , 06:17 PM

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it is just this 1 I have left and tried all surrounding vertices but no joy user added image

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# 7 25-07-2011 , 06:34 PM

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Try again I think could be a lamina face, try deleting the two faces next to the dip then rebuild with append to poly..........dave

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# 8 25-07-2011 , 06:44 PM

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It is more likely you have a internal face in this intance. You can use the mesh>cleanup tools to find and correct the problem.

A manual way to fix this is to delete the face(s) in the affected area, look for internal faces, if you see none then rebuild the faces using append to poly, extrude edge and merge verts, and bridge tools in whatever combination you need.

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# 9 25-07-2011 , 08:49 PM

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cheeers guys will try it shortly user added image

Thanks for the response so swiftly user added image

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# 10 25-07-2011 , 11:17 PM

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Im with ct and dave silverspawn....sometimes there isnt anything wrong at all...I have had this before too...dont know why Maya does it but sometimes she gets cranky..I delete faces one by one in the area and rebuild too...works usually

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