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Plane Cut

Plane Cut - Meshmixer Tutorial

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Plane Cut

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- [Instructor] This video is on the Plane Cut command. I have the default bunny in here that we got with File, Import Bunny. We go to Edit to Plane Cut. We have our transformation widget here, with local and world coordinates, just like all other tools. We have new little arrow here and our normal kind of transformation widget. So as you could see right now with a little preview as we move this slider up and down we are cutting this bunny in a certain fashion, like this. And our option is Cut Discard Half. So what that's going to do is it's going to cut it and this ghosted part is going to get discarded. And the Fill Type is Remeshed Fill which means that we are going to fill this area with a nice surface. We can say Remeshed Fixed or Minimal. Different types of fill options for what the triangles will look like once this option completes. If we switch this to Slice Keep Both, may not look much different but when we click Accept for this, it doesn't look much different but if we use…

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