Hi everybody. I’m doing a symmetrical model and I made every half a component, now I want to join them but I want to remove the lines for every connected edges (joints). I know I can smooth them (sometimes delete) if I explode the model first but I’d like to keep them as components because I alread…

I would open the half block for editing before copying and flipping its geometry and erasing the seam lines. There are other gymnastics you can go through that amount to the same thing. You could explode the right side copy you made, cut its geometry to the clipboard, open the left side and paste i…

How to finish a symmetrical model with components?

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DaveR September 23, 2017, 1:12pm 7

This is what TIG was referring to.
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It leaves the halves of the block as separate instances of the same component. This can have some benefits.
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How to finish a symmetrical model with components?

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