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Tools in the Detail tab are typically used to tweak a model once it??™s
constructed, by fine-tuning one or more points or polygons. Their
specific uses include adding and remove edges from models, adjusting
the ???grain??? or ???flow??? of object surfaces, and cleaning up extra
points that sometimes appear along the seams where objects are
merged or mirrored. Check out the tool categories!
Points
Not to be confused with the Points tools in the Create tab, which are
used to create points, the Detail tab??™s Points tools are used to adjust point
details within an existing model (Figure 1.39). For example, the Weld
tool lets you reduce a cluster of points down to one, in the position of
the last point you selected, and the Weld Average tool joins irregular
groups of adjacent points into smooth seams. The category??™s Set Value
command also lets you precisely reposition groups of selected points.
Polygons
The Detail tab??™s Polygon category contains smart tools you can use to
add polygons to models in spots where you need finer detail, merge
polygons where you don??™t, and flip or perhaps just align them (Figure
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