Detailing with Cut and Remove

- The modeling ribbon in 3ds Max…provides multiple tools for adding and removing detail…to a polygon object.…Let's look at the cut tool, which is an interactive way…of chopping through a model to create new edges…and vertices and polygons.…I'll select the sword blade,…and you'll see in the image plane that…the scalloped area here needs to taper.…And currently, that's not happening here.…I can just cut a new edge right across here,…based upon these existing vertices.…

I don't need to be in any particular sub-object mode…to do that, in fact I'm just in object mode currently.…Here in the Edit panel, you'll see Cut.…Go ahead and click on that.…As you move your cursor around the model,…the cursor will change to different types,…indicating what you're going to be snapping to.…Here in the center of a face or polygon,…that means you're going to create a new vertex…right in the middle of that face.…If you hover over an edge, that means…you're going to bisect that edge, creating a new vertex…at that location.…And if you hover over a vertex where edges meet,…