Mesh Menu

The Mesh menu contains the most commonly used mesh data preparation algorithms:

Menu option	Description	Keyboard Shortcut
Repair Mesh	Automatically repairs selected meshes (tessellated geometries): stitches disconnected edges within the given tolerance, orients faces consistently…
Orient Faces	Orients consistently polygons' faces and normals in the same direction by propagating orientation information from one polygon to the other, for the selected meshes. See About Face and Vertex Normals
Invert Faces Orientation	Inverts polygons' faces and normals orientation, for the selection. The selection can be either parts, patches or polygons.
Orient Faces From Current View	Orient Faces From Current View executes a semi-automatic repair of polygons’ face orientation, based on the viewport camera. It uses the camera's position to properly and automatically orient meshes faces towards its direction. TIP: Use it step by step around your model until you are satisfied with meshes face orientation
Smart Orient Faces	Orients all polygon faces in the same direction, automatically and at once on a full model, using a scattering of cameras to determine faces final orientation
Create Normals	Creates normals on the polygons of the selection See About Face and Vertex Normals
Orient Normals	Orients consistently clockwise the vertex normals of a mesh in order to correct its smoothing See About Face and Vertex Normals
Delete Normals	Deletes normals from a mesh WARNING: Deleting normals from a mesh can result in an improper shading (black or faceted) See About Face and Vertex Normals
Create Tangents	Creates tangents on selected meshes, accordingly to their UVs (requires UVs in order to work)
Identify Patches	Creates patches boundaries on the selected meshes, based on geometrical information (attributes, edges angle, former CAD information…)
Delete Patches	Deletes patches boundaries
Explode Part By Materials	Creates one Part occurrence by material applied on the patches of the selected parts
Explode Part By Connected Meshes	Splits all the connected meshes within a Part into one new Part per connected mesh, for the selected parts
Explode Part By Patches	Splits meshes following patch boundaries and creates one single Part occurrence per old patch
Separate Selection in New Part	Creates a new Part out of a selection of submeshes (patches, polygons…)
Create Lines	Creates polylines (made of free edges connected together) out of patches boundaries
Delete Lines	Deletes polylines (made of free edges connected together) TIP: It can be useful to delete lines prior to exporting to FBX files, in order to limit the file size and avoid performance issues in some cases.
Create Textures From Lines	Create textures out of coplanar polylines (made of free edges connected together)
Extract Neutral Axis From Pipes	Create a polyline (or a group of polylines) out of any swept shape like piping, wiring, tubing
Create Pipes From Lines	Extrudes a circular section along an underlying polyline (sweep)
Delete Free Vertices	Deletes all free vertices of a selection of meshes
Remove Z-fighting	Remove Z-fighting (surfaces overlapping) by slightly shrinking the selected parts' surfaces
Vertex Offset	Moves the vertices by offsetting their position along their normal, positively or negatively