What's a pole? Any vertex with more than 4 edges. Of course, this is all well and good, and everything is still in quads, but it can be argued that you've traded one problem (bad edge flow) with another (poles). (Then maybe you add a door frame, get a little fancier, etc etc) Now you can extrude out that one face, and you have the start of a door Instead, you could add the following edges Now, you want to add a door here, but then these would be the loop cuts For example, let's say you started with this house (forgive the quick model) Then, if you want to add a windows, you wouldn't need to loop cut all the way around the roof every time.Īlso, in general, if you are working on hard surfaces (mostly non-biological, like a house, or a car) you can forgo loop cuts throughout the model by carving up a face, then terminating the edges locally. If is can be multiple parts, you could make, for example, one part for a roof section, and one part for the walls.If the mesh needs to be one continuous part with no missing faces (otherwise referred to as 'manifold'), then you do have to make loop cuts if you want consistent edge-flow (particularly on meshes that use subdivision modifiers).

Kind of both, depending on what you need

If you start with Blender, you can keep edge-flow in mind from the get-go, and you can skip all the cleanup or remeshing.ĭo I need to add Loopcuts and new edges everywhere to get rid of the triangle faces? That said, you will always get haphazard meshes from it. If my memory of Sketchup holds true, it isn't concerned with per-vertex manipulation, it just allows you to make shapes and plunk them together. Perhaps see if there's a 'quads' export option.Īssuming that isn't an option (because if it is, you can stop reading), you have two options ġ: Retopologize the mesh (either by modifying the current mesh, or by making a new mesh on top of that one with the intention of recreating the same shape with a different edge flow)Ģ: Don't model in Sketchup first (obviously not applicable for this model, this is future-looking). This is less a Blender question at this point than a Sketchup question The import isn't making all the tris, Sketchup is. Is there a better way to import the files that will give me a cleaner mesh?

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