[Tutorial > Modeling] Hidden Seam Tutorial

[Krisidious]

awesome Boo... thanks for this.

I run into this issue all the time with windows and doors in walls.

[Dave R]

That's a great tip. I frequently split components that are symmetrical along their centerlines. Then by copying that half or even quarter, mirroring the copy (copies) and hiding the seam lines I get the appearance of a whole without the file bloat. Getting ridd of those un-needed faces helps to hide the seam line. Here's an example

[Gaieus]

The only problem that unfortunately this won't work with curved surfaces - just like when you hide the lines on the side of a cylinder for instance instead of softening them.

Still an important thing to remember and use this technique when there are coplanar faces!

[dylan]

Nice one Eric, I come across this problem a lot.

[tinanne]

GREAT TIP! I also have this problem, thanks Boo!

[boofredlay]

I am happy to hear this has helped so many.

[Edson]

great answer to a problem that is not complex but very annoying.

by the way, your signature reminds me of indian chiefs depicted in westerns with names that were descriptive of some of their main traits of personality (like "one who rises with the sun" and the like).

regards.

[boofredlay]

That is beautiful Dave!

[mateo soletic]

Thank a lot Boo, great stuff.

[Dave R]

@unknownuser said:

That is beautiful Dave!

Thank you.

[Dave R]

I did this one last night for a friend. Thought I'd post it as another example of this method.

[Jean Lemire]

Hi folks.

Good stuff Boofredlay.

If, for any reason, you want to retain the offending internal face that is showing trough the sides, you may hide it instead of deleting it.

Just ideas.

[Gaieus]

Good tip, Jean, John has also been thinking like you just one post above:
http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?p=23347#p23347

[bcoleman001]

Great Tips! Thanks!

[JClements]

Great tip.

I've been using this method for a while. However, I can never be sure (anticipate) if I'll need those surfaces later if a change to the model is needed. So I create My Hidden Edges and/or My Hidden Surfaces layers and then turn their visibility off and move the geometry to them (I try not to use the "hide" function). At end of modeling, getting rid of the hidden faces is as easy as deleting My Hidden Surfaces layer.

[arcaterra]

HI
I just tried to download the tutorial from your link, but I get an error that the page does not exist.

Can you check?

[boofredlay]

Fixed.

[Julius]

very useful tip!