Best way to cleanup these messy edges?

Asked Mar 08 '18 at 20:05

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I want to cleanup the highlighted vertices so they are rather sharp edges (which can then be beveled with a modifier if I wish). I've tried just selecting those vertices and doing remove doubles, limited dissolve, and decimate, but each time it ends up affecting the non-highlighted parts (the faces which I want to keep smooth).

Here's another example. I want to clean up the edges without losing the roundness of the pegs:

This is what I ended up with for the first picture:

edited Mar 09 '18 at 20:20

asked Mar 08 '18 at 20:05

Matt Chambers

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That is some messy topology...I think re-topologizing the whole object might be a lot less work than trying to fix it. – Mar 08 '18 at 20:08
I've never done that before. Something like described here? https://www.pluralsight.com/blog/tutorials/retopologize-nine-times-faster-shrink-wrap-modifier-blender – Matt Chambers Mar 08 '18 at 20:42
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Related Is there a way to “rescue” mesh that has very bad topology? – Mar 08 '18 at 20:48
Curiously, if I use shrinkwrap with a high subsurface count on the sphere, it keeps the messy edges I'm trying to get rid of. If I use it with a low subsurface count, it doesn't keep enough detail... – Matt Chambers Mar 08 '18 at 22:45
I ened up doing a pretty decent cleanup job by using decimate on discrete features, like one loop at a time. In the first picture above, there are 4 loops, and if I decimate them one at a time I could get each one down to 30-60 vertices. – Matt Chambers Mar 09 '18 at 20:19
@Matt Chambers - You may want to consider an approach like [img]https://i.imgur.com/lfqChg9.png[/img] in the future. – Dontwalk Mar 09 '18 at 20:45

Best way to cleanup these messy edges?

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