M3A6 - Editable objects - Editing primitives Video Lecture | 3DS MAX - Architecture Design Tutorial (Introductory Course)

in this class we will study about
editing solids and how their meshes
behave
these tools enable the creation of
different geometries from existing
geometries for our designs so let's
begin the class
in the last class we learned about
defining measurements for the length
height and width of an object
remember we can
also modify the geometry of an object by
adding different modifiers and we'll
learn more about these throughout the
course
now we will change the solids by editing
their meshes there are two types for
editing solids
editable poly and editable mesh we will
study the editable poly type in this
class which provides more interesting
tools than the earlier editable mesh
assess the quad menu to convert a
primitive into an editable poly by
right-clicking the mouse and then click
convert to editable poly
this tool subdivides the geometric
properties into vertex edge border
polygon and element
these are selection modes which help to
select specific vertexes edges and faces
let's learn about the function of each
selection mode vertex changes the
position of any vertex in the shape will
see this gizmo is specific to this
vertex
in the edge mode we can
change the edge properties we can change
the position angle and also the scale
the border selection mode enables a
selection of all edges in an opening of
a geometric mesh
if this object were closed it wouldn't
be possible to select the borders of the
geometry like this
you
in the polygon we can change the polygon
settings there can be more than three
edges in a polygon this selection mode
is appropriate for this type of geometry
editing
the element selection mode enables
changing the entire geometry
we can for example select geometry
separately when they are attached to
each other
as you can see here there are two semi
spheres both are attached assess the
element mode and then we can select the
lower semi sphere
we can see only the lower part has been
selected and now it is easily edited
assess the polygon mode to extrude faces
enabled extrude settings as shown here
and click the by polygon option
an extrusion height type any desired
value and you will see a very
interesting lamp
now if we had enabled the polygon option
for selecting all the faces we would
needlessly select the upper part of the
semi sphere and this would double our
work to unselect it
so in this class we learned about the
main properties of an editable geometry
and based on this knowledge we can
generate more complicated models for our
designs