how to combine or merge multiple poly faces

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# 1 01-11-2005 , 09:56 PM

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hi, is there any way to combine or merge multiple ( 2 or more) poly faces into 1 face?

eg: like below? left rect (before) right rect (after)

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# 2 01-11-2005 , 11:01 PM

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Go in edge mode -- select the edges inbetween the faces, delete.

You may then want to go into vertex mode and see if there's any dots in the middle of nowhere caused by that... I can't remember whether or not it cleans up the orphaned vertices or not.

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# 3 02-11-2005 , 09:00 AM

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thanks a lot user added image

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# 4 02-11-2005 , 10:22 AM

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Tip: Get into the habit of using edit polygons -> delete edge as this removes the vertices as well. Look into adding a shortcut into your custom shelf so you can easily use it.
Simply pressing delete leaves the vertices in the model which can be bad later on.

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