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Enable Slice Plane snapping when polygons are selected within Edit Poly Modifier

Enable Slice Plane snapping when polygons are selected within Edit Poly Modifier

Currently, if you have polygons selected on a mesh while using the Edit Poly Modifier, you are unable to snap the Edit Poly's Slice Plane to anything. It would be helpful if you could.

6 Comments
Anonymous
Not applicable

For me snapping it's working even with edit poly and polygons selected.

t_seelig
Explorer
Unless they've changed it in 2018 it doesn't work for me.
-create a polygon primitive
-select all the polygons on the primitive.
-enable the slice plane, within edit poly, and I'm unable to snap to
anything.
The slice plane won't snap to selected polygon edges or verts. It will only
snap to unselected verts and edges.



Anonymous
Not applicable

I agree with t_seelig - I have Max 2016 (don't use the others) and can confirm that sliceplane snapping only works when NO POLYs are selected.  If you're in vertex or edge sub-element mode you can snap the sliceplan like anything else but when polys are selected - no can do!  Annoying because you only see the preview of the cut when the slice is going across selected polys.  Dunno if they changed this in later versions but i doubt it.

arqrenderz
Enthusiast

I want to bump this old topic, 3dsmax cant snap to a selected poligon !!! Is there something we are missing?

Is there some workaround or option we are not using? or is just that this is working as intended? 

Would love to hear from autodesk guys or some experienced user. Otherwise i think this should be solved

t_seelig
Explorer
When using the Slicing Plane within the Edit Poly modifier, If you select
all of the polygons on the object, snapping doesn't recognize (or engage)
any of the selected geometry's vertices or lines . I'm attaching a picture
as reference. Hopefully this helps.

bumping this

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