If you want to control the location of the merge, set the pivot control to 3d cursor. Place or snap the 3d cursor as desired. Select the two rows of vertices that you want to merge. Make sure AutoMerge is enabled. Scale to zero along the axis for the desired merge. Remove Doubles with the default settings. Done.<br>
<br>If you have several merges to perform, then wait until you've finished aligning everything before doing a Remove Doubles. That way you only have to do it once.<br><br>After setting the pivot control and enabling AutoMerge, it's a very fast solution <b>that works</b>. I can't think of a faster way without having a specific button or macro for the task.<br>
<br>I can create a quick video demonstrating the process, if needed.<br><br><br>Kernon<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Roger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hovergo@net-tech.com.au">hovergo@net-tech.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">Tony Mullen wrote:<br>
>> I have no idea how Blender picks which of the points to delete<br>
><br>
> It picks them based on proximity. You set the maximum distance in the<br>
> Limit field next to the Rem Doubles button.<br>
><br>
> I don't fully understand most of the workarounds proposed here to<br>
> Roger's initial suggestion, and I don't see how this issue could be<br>
> addressed using proximity-based merging. But the suggestion itself is<br>
> a good one and it seems to be obvious missing functionality. Blender<br>
> already has an "at first" and "at last" option when merging two<br>
> vertices. It does not have an "at first" or "at last" when merging<br>
> more than two vertices, and it would be useful it it did. Of course<br>
> there are workarounds involving snapping with the 3D cursor, but these<br>
> are all extra steps and it seems most sensible simply to have merging<br>
> work the same with 2+ verts as it works with 2 verts.<br>
><br>
</div><Mesh Tools><Remove Doubles> works if the proximity is set accordingly high.<br>
It does not remove the join and make the object into one piece.<br>
Take 2 cubes joined and close together, so 4 verts of each are in proximity say<br>
0.2 blender unit apart.<br>
Rem Doubles works if the Limit (proximity) is 0.21 or slightly larger than the<br>
distance between.<br>
I guess this would work for any distance up to the maximim of the Limitprovided<br>
the Limit is suitably set.<br>
<br>
Its all extra work when simple selection of verts and merge would speed the process.<br>
TIA<br>
<font color="#888888">Roger<br>
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