New User - Confused.. can not weld verts?

[Anonymous]

Hi there....

I'm having a strange mechanical problem in max 2017, I am sure it is just a misunderstanding in how Max functions...

I made a object, I edited it a little as a "edit poly". Then I selected the entire object as an "element" and clone moved it (with shift)... then, still in edit polly/element selected the new element created and with vertex snap on moved it so the connecting verts should be directly on top of each other... Now I can not seam to WELD those verts. If I click "weld" nothing happens, if I click the wold dialogue box and even set it to huge numbers there is no change in the vertex count and even target weld will not work.

I did a similar test, but instead of cloning the element in edit poly I cloned a entire new object then in the original edit poly used "attach".... Same results.

Can anyone explain what is going?

Object - Edit Poly

Object - Clone Element.. same problem with attaching a new object

With the entire new element selected, I use 3d-Vert-Snap to align it to the vert of the other element.

I drag a box and select the two (?) verts on top of each other and select the WELD option... even set to HUGE values, there is no vert count change

I drag back 1 of the verts to ensure they are over lapped and not connecting, then try to use WLED VERT and while I can select either vert, the target will not allow me to select the vert on the other element.

Thanks for your time!

[Daf · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Remove the opposing faces and then attach and weld. You don't need or want those faces at this point anyway. 😉

Daf

[Alfred.DeFlaminis]

Hello @Anonymous and welcome to the community,

I just wanted to follow up here, any progress on this issue?  @Daf is correct here that when welding verts from two separate elements, it's necessary to delete those inner faces first.  Did that work out for you?  

Best Regards,