Faster Cleanup Tips for Blender

Cleanup is never exactly an exciting task so any tips to make things faster are always helpful, especially when they can save you hours over the course of a few projects.
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[@AnthonyHortin]

3:28 Came for the Blender tips. Stayed for the dramatic acting lesson. Bravo good sir! 👏👏👏

[@ArtisansofVaul]

😅 😉 Dramatic wasn't it! But also tragic at the same time. Don't worry though? Not hands were harmed in the making of this video.

[@richardokeeffe8375]

Alt + Q…I owe you much time now

[@ArtisansofVaul]

😁 Thanks. I actually found thag watching a sculpting video and was like "why has this not been mentioned on other videos!?"

[@kyleg1999]

I just wanted you to know I love your videos and whenever I have a problem when I am designing I always check your channel first to find out the solution

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Thanks so much Kyleg 😁 Great to know when someone finds you as a go to for help 😁😁😁

[@Starflight_Miniatures]

Totally agree regarding addons. The first tutorial I bought needed an addon so I just went with it. Couldn't imagine doing things like retopology manually or manually applying damage to 2000 bricks 😂

[@ArtisansofVaul]

👍🏻 I think you've been very sensible in your outlook. It's very little money to save a huge amount of time.

[@drakeintentions]

Omg! I spent so freaking long cleaning up my last meshes. Getting rid of zero faces and merging vertexs. God i wished I had known how to use these quick saves.

[@ArtisansofVaul]

😁👍🏻Hopefully this will help speed that up a lot. When I started working through cleanup this way I know it sped everything up a lot for me.

[@DominikMorse]

Your videos are always great tips. Let the machine spirit of your computer be pleased with you!

[@ArtisansofVaul]

😁😁😁

[@mind_of_a_darkhorse]

Just an FYI, Flowify now works on cylinders! Making tires is now easier than ever!

[@ArtisansofVaul]

I know 😁 Literally about to start videoing a tutorial now. So hyped!

[@mind_of_a_darkhorse]

@@ArtisansofVaul I will enjoy watching it, once done!

[@darrennew8211]

For that last one, you could just pick the n-gons in face mode and use "triangulate faces" from the face menu. (I'm kind of surprised there's no "select n-gons" in the select menu.)

[@ArtisansofVaul]

That would be a great select option. I bet that wouldn't be too hard to create with Geometry Node Tools.

[@darrennew8211]

@@ArtisansofVaul Ha! I forgot we can do that now! :-)

[@artemoz726]

You kinda can select n-gons if you select any quad -> Select Similar (Shift+G) -> Polygon Sides -> change "Compare" property to "Greater" -> deselect the quad. Yeah, in typical "vanilla = many keys to press" fashion. :)

[@Piotreq321]

When it comes to using triangulate modifier you can set it to triangulate ngons with 5 or more verts only so it will not touch quads. But I understand your demonstration as sometimes it's worth triangulating your mesh by hand and I machin3tools is very helpfull in this matter

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Great tip 👍🏻😁

[@steggy53]

Anyone who's second guessing paid add-ons needs to consider the time-cost of money. If your job pays you $20 per hour, then one hour of your time equals $20. So if an add-on that costs $20 will save you at least an hour over all your projects, then it's worth the money.

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Thats completely my mentality and I cant think of one addon I have bought that has not made its money back time and time over!

[@argi4141]

shout out to the camera man who demonstrated dying from blender-related trauma, that really demonstrated how dangerous it is to not use addons

[@ArtisansofVaul]

🤣🤣🤣😁 Exactly! But don't worry, it was filmed in a fully monitored location and no fingers/hands were hurt in the making of this video 😉

[@Arg0n01]

I usually do these kinds of things in AutoCAD or other CAD program as it allows really simple geometry which then you can export as a .dxf and there are plugins that allow Blender to import those files then I just extrude them. Super rapid fire way to do such shapes.

[@ArtisansofVaul]

That's cool. I've yet to find a CAD program that didn't cost the Earth though to make me want to go that route.

[@Arg0n01]

@@ArtisansofVaul Libre CAD is an open source free CAD program, not as refined as AutoCAD but will with a minor amount of effort will produce the same results, check it out.

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@@Arg0n01 Ohh.... Interesting! Thanks so much!

[@k4x4map46]

kool!

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Thanks 👍🏻😁

[@eitantal726]

Curious why SVG was needed. Couldn't find a font you like? Fonts supposedly will give you perfect beziers

[@ArtisansofVaul]

I could but as you have said there wasn't a font that was what I really wanted. Or at least it was vastly faster to search for an image.

[@styloo_]

great video, i have merge at center, at last, and join in quick favorite and it save a lot of time , and mesh machine is the best paid addon ever, but it cost too much, for poor country it's almost a month "minimum" salary

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Yeah I appreciate its a costly addon. I guess it depends on how much it would be used/time it would save.

[@eitantal726]

At least it's a one-off purchase. Some addons (like high-end remeshers) are subscription-based

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@@eitantal726 That's a very good point 👍🏻

[@EmilySmirleGURPS]

Quick note, your 9 is "XI", which is 11 (and you have 11 correctly as "XI"). 9 should be "IX"

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Oh man! What a blunder. Better get on that!

[@spencerarnold669]

Is there any way to improve 3d scans by crisping up the rounded edges or deepening the the lines?

[@ArtisansofVaul]

There is but not really as an automated process. I found its pretty easy to go into sculpt mode and tweek bits, smooth and sharpen the edges of parts. The other option (which is what I generally do) is to remake the object in Blender over the top of it to get perfect dimensions. But that's quite dependant on how complex it is.

[@eitantal726]

8:00 How did you get the problem areas to automatically be yellow?

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Ah... that's because the faces will be flipped and I keep my face orientation showing. Its covered in the second part of this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/paPUpWt8rJykbtE

[@eitantal726]

@@ArtisansofVaulSomething else to think about: Would be good to also easily detect face-on-top-of-face. This is the reason Show normals has some alpha even to the correct orientation. If you have a face on top of another, it will look different

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@eitantal726 normally that's not too hard to spot just from the colour on top of each other, no need for the alpha.

[@CosplayZine]

POV: if it isnt an external download then it's not an addon bc it techniclly comes with blender. And if its free then why not download it? Time is money. The same people who act like you should only learn vanilla blender probably own boxcutter and hard ops etc..

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Totally agree!

[@TitusKrakenDesigns]

kool!

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Cheers Titus 😁