Adding editable polygons to a shape

[jamie7991]

Hi folks

I was just wondering if anyone knew of a way of breaking up a shape into smaller polygons that can be edited?

What I've got is an outline of half a t-shirt (the front half) and I would like to divide it into squares so I can push/pull the lines out the outline to give it more of a 3d effect which I can then later smooth. Apart from manually drawing a load of lines, how can this be done?

Cheers

Jamie

[xiombarg]

So if I understand you correctly, you want to place a grid into a flat outline of a shirt.
If this is correct I would do it like this.

1-draw a sqaure.
2-Use the Artisan plugin to subdivide the square.
3-Unsoften the sqaure so you can see the subdivsions, or turn on your hidden geometry.
4-Make sure that neither the shirt nor the square are grouped separately, or just ungroup both of them.
5-Lay the square on top of the shirt outline which will automatically merge the two as long as both are flat and on the same plane. (If needed use the axes tool and set it to the shirt outline before you draw the square so that both will be on the same plane.)
6-Erase all extra lines existing outside the outline of the shirt.

[xiombarg]

If you don't have Artisan you could probably find a grid generator plugin that would work just as well.

[Box]

You can draw a grid of any size squares very quickly with the sandbox tool.

[panixia]

use quadface tools + vertex tools and have fun!

[pilou]

Work Plane by TIG ?