Introduction

Introduction to the Polygon Tools
Polygon Interface Summary

Building Polygons and Polysets

Creating and Adding Polygons
Creating Polygons from NURBS
Extruding polygon edges
Inserting a Polygon Edge
Extruding Polygons
Translating a Polygon Extrude
Rotating a Polygon Extrude
Scaling a Polygon Extrude
Extracting Curves from Polysets
Stitching NURBS Curves
Creating a Wedged Polygon
Displaying Polyset Statistics

Editing Polysets

Removing Redundant Polygons
Deleting Polygonal Vertices
Moving Polygon Vertices
Picking Non-Planar Polygons
Inserting Vertices and Edges
Inserting Polygon Vertices
Picking Polygons
Picking and Unpicking Vertices
Picking and Unpicking Polysets
Reducing Polygon Count
Combining Polysets
Removing and Transplanting Polysets
Combining and Creating a Polyset
Creating Polygon "Chunks"
Increasing Polygon Divisions
Flipping Split Quad Edges
Splitting and Merging Vertices
Creating Shared Vertices
Creating Multiple Vertices
Moving Polygon Edges
Rotating Edges around T and N Axes
Scaling from an Edge Mid-Point
Moving Polygons
Rotating Polygons
Scaling Polygons

Preparing Polygons for Rendering

Changing Polygon Display Styles
Storing Polygon Color Information
Unifying the Normal Direction
Smoothing Polyset Vertices
Mapping Textures to Irregularly Shaped Polygons
Changing UV Parameterization
Mapping Vertices to Projections and NURBS Surfaces
Changing and Copying Polygon Parameterization
Reducing Polyset Colors




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