Creating a component with no outline

sintra

Hi,

This might be a really easy answer but i cannot figure out how to do it I am wanting to create a component with no edges displayed can anybody advise me on how to do this please ???

Darren

Gaieus

Hi Darren,

The easiest and "safest" way (even with complex components) is to enter their editing context then go to wireframe mode (this hides all the faces but the edges) select all the edges, right click on the selection (or go to Edit menu) and hide everything.

Once you close the component and return to any of the "normal" display modes, you will have e component with hidden edges.

fefillo

Depending on your specific needs, you can also go into View > Edge Styles and un-tick Display Edges and Profiles.

Fefo

sintra

Hi Gaieus

I may be doing something wrong but i tried what you suggested but it made my model disapear, if anybody has time to take a look at my model that would be great http://www.box.net/shared/zel9rd2qxe

Cheers

Darren

sintra

@unknownuser said:

Click on shaded with textures and it should reappear.

I tried this but still no luck, my component is made up of a number of components within components ould this make a difference.

Cheers

Darren

Gaieus

@sintra said:

my component is made up of a number of components within components ould this make a difference.

Yes, definitely!

In my suggestion I really meant simple, raw geometry. If you enter into the parent component's context only, then either a right to left or a left to right selection will only select the nested (child) components only.

So I have looked into your linked file and saw that there are only two components within the parent component; the leaves and the stem

Now what you can do, is to enter the context of an instance of each of these two components and do the above operation in each separately.

On a side note; while this shrub seems to be nice, it is etremely high poly and way too big in file size as well. Also, what I noticed, the images on the leaves are cluttered and since the leaves themselves are not instances of the same component, this would be rather tiresome to fix.
This also counts for the very big file size however.