
Just hold the Ctrl + Shift button of the keyboard and make click on polygroup that you want to see.Īnd once you make a click, other polygroups will hide automatically. So you make changes in values to see the variation.įor working in a smooth way, most of the time, we need to hide other polygroups rather than we are working. You can also mask where you want to have a separate polygroup and then click on the From Masking option of the Polygroups section panel.Īnd it will assign polygroups according to the chosen value of this option. You can vary the value of angle for having different results. Use the ‘Groups by Normals’ option for assigning polygroups on the basis of angle. For example, you can create polygroups by edges. You can go with other parameters of the Polygroup section for assigning polygroup in different manners. For example, if we press the Auto Groups option, it will automatically assign different colors to objects of the group. We can use the different options of the Polygroups section of the Tool bar for assigning polygroups in different manners. You can undo polygroup creation and again press Ctrl + W for making polygroup, and you will have different color each time. The color of created polygroup is randomly picked by the software.

You can make a selection with a Mask brush, so hold the Ctrl button of the keyboard for converting the mouse cursor into a Mask brush and make a selection. Hold the Ctrl + Shift button of the keyboard, then click anywhere on the floor area to unhide other parts of the model. Now you can see there are two polygroups with different colors. Once you convert it into a separate polygroup, its color will change into something different from the color of the whole model. Once you make a selection, it will show you only the selected section and for making it a separate polygroup, just press Ctrl + W as its shortcut key. Now I will drag the mouse cursor by holding the Ctrl + Shift button of a keyboard for making selection around the head of this rhino. For this time, I will select this Select Lasso brush. After that, you can take any selection brush According to what type of section you are going to select on your model. There are few methods to create polygroups for the first method, take Select Brush from the Brushes panel. So go to Polygroups sections of the Tool bar panel, which is at the right side of the working screen, and click on Groups from Polypaint. I will convert it into one polygroup to explain you how you can create different sections of polygroups.

You can see it have already polygroups sections. Then, you can try this on your own model.

Now for this purpose, let us have a model from Lightbox, and I will take this Rhino model. In this section, you will get all idea about creating polygroups as per you own choice. Now let us move to other section of this article which is how we can create polygroups. I just given you an example for its basic working. There is much more thing which we can do with polygroups. I will select Extrude action, and in the Target section, I will choose Polyloop.Īnd when I extrude one polygon, it will extrude all groups like this. Same as an edge, we can work on polygons shapes group. And once I move edges in an inward direction, it will bevel entire edges like this.
