How to remove leftover edge after dissolve flat edges?

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Hi, I'm trying to remove flat edges and the labs tool does that job quite nicely. However I am left with this one connecting edge that I can't get rid of I tried just doing the steps in the labs tool manually and of course got the exact same result. Eventually it gets to a bevel where I blast the inner faces away and am left with the edge shell, but by that point I could do without that edge being there.

Anyone got any ideas of some workaround of a better way to do it? I like using the bevel as it has the nice feature of stopping the bevel when edges hit each other and deals nicely with the corners.



Edited by Aten - Feb. 15, 2021 15:55:14

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Hi,

You can group the edges, you want to bevel. Just use the group node (edge type), deactivate base group, activate include by edges, and turn max edge angle small (< 5). In the bevel node you can select this group in the group field and write "!" before, to get the complement.
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Oh man, it's really that simple? It works a treat though, I owe you a beer after lockdown

Edited by Aten - Feb. 15, 2021 19:22:53

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Hey Aten,

you can also modify the Labs dissolve_flat_edges node. Unlock it and dive inside it. On the dissolve node change the "bridge" dropdown from "create bridged polygons" to "create disjoint polygons".

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Thanks mate, that works better in some cases too! I also just found a node in Labs that does almost the same thing, so I'm going to take a look how that does it too - 'labs rdb edge strip' - guess I didn't look in there hard enough when I started this thing
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