5 BEST TIPS for Merging Vertices in Blender!

In this video, we talk about several different ways to merge vertices inside of Blender! This can be helpful for creating models, cleaning up duplicate vertices, using advanced functions like merging to a central or selected point, and more!
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Introduction
0:23 - Turning on Auto Merge Vertices in Blender
1:50 - Turning on Splitting Edges and Faces with Vertices
3:29 - Blender Merge Function - Merge at Center
4:47 - Blender Merge Function - Merge by Distance
6:10 - Using merge by distance to get rid of duplicate vertices
6:52 - Joining Objects so vertices can merge

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  • @TheCGEssentials
    @TheCGEssentials3 жыл бұрын

    Hi everyone! Let me know if you have questions about any of these tools in the comments below! :)

  • @TheSillybits
    @TheSillybits2 жыл бұрын

    For me, Blender has a steep learning curve, but thanks to you I am really catching up and feeling leaving SketchUp isn’t such a big deal after all. And your outro always makes me laugh so I thought I drop you a thank you from a absolute beginner. Thanks!

  • @daveneiland
    @daveneiland3 ай бұрын

    You're always my go-to for quick fixes and really appreciate all your efforts 🙏 Keep up the good work and never change your intro 😂

  • @RCAcree
    @RCAcree Жыл бұрын

    You're Videos have saved me on all the places I seem to get stuck on. I just wanted to say thank you so much!!!

  • @gbenatar11
    @gbenatar112 жыл бұрын

    Thanks. You're a genius. I understood everything about merging points in blender in just 10 minutes.

  • @alfredodiez2170
    @alfredodiez2170 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much! your videos are always so helpful and to the point!

  • @pitik
    @pitik10 ай бұрын

    Thank you for all these simple but handy tutorials

  • @TinyMaths
    @TinyMaths2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks, very helpful. I've just come back to Blender after more than a year of not touching it (had about a year and a half on and off experience before that), and was having a lot of issues. Did an intersect boolean and the result was so many duplicate verts.... the 'merge by distance', which I forgot about made clean up 1000x easier.

  • @buyableending9564
    @buyableending95642 жыл бұрын

    Bro, you just saved me hours of messing around, much appreciated!

  • @in3432
    @in34323 ай бұрын

    Brilliant tutorial. just the info I needed, thanks

  • @jasonmcdade8837
    @jasonmcdade88377 күн бұрын

    Very helpful! Thanks Justin!

  • @abhishekpanigrahi5944
    @abhishekpanigrahi59442 жыл бұрын

    thank you for the tips! it really helped me clean up some meshes i downloaded and wanted to edit for my purpose

  • @JimNilzon
    @JimNilzon3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for that. Quick and to the point.

  • @Franandphotos
    @Franandphotos2 ай бұрын

    This was so helpful thanks!!

  • @SonNeko
    @SonNeko Жыл бұрын

    Oh my god you just solved such a big problem I was having in blender, Thank you!🤩😍

  • @PaulRubino
    @PaulRubino Жыл бұрын

    Great tutorial! Thank you!

  • @MrNitrox91
    @MrNitrox9110 ай бұрын

    Thank you! I needed this!

  • @protonprotonfix5749
    @protonprotonfix57497 ай бұрын

    This was a great tut that helped a lot!

  • @ttertulio
    @ttertulio11 ай бұрын

    you rock bro. It is all I can say. Cheers from Austin Tx.

  • @douchymcdouche169
    @douchymcdouche1693 жыл бұрын

    2:17 I've been using Blender for a year and watched tons of tutorials. I had no idea that snap menu could do this!

  • @radar536
    @radar5364 ай бұрын

    Very useful! Thx!

  • @utsavinfinity3272
    @utsavinfinity32722 жыл бұрын

    a big big thanks man!

  • @chrisdebeaupre6758
    @chrisdebeaupre67583 жыл бұрын

    Man. I never new this. Thank you for this video. If I told you what I was doing before to merge all the extra vertices you would LYAO.

  • @TheCGEssentials

    @TheCGEssentials

    3 жыл бұрын

    Glad it helped!

  • @Adlip_Kun
    @Adlip_Kun Жыл бұрын

    Really helpful 💖

  • @InfamousCrisCris
    @InfamousCrisCris2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for 5:58. I have a uniform I made in Marvelous Designer that has a larger amount of faces/vertices on the gloves and kneepads while in Blender. At this point in my project I feel the extra vertices are unnecessary and I wanted to know how I can have those pieces match the main material of the uniform. Merge by distance really helped once I understood it and I think it's really gonna help my workflow in putting my uniform back together. Still a Blender noob so this is super helpful.

  • @leeanimator5021
    @leeanimator5021 Жыл бұрын

    Yes! That's what I looking for right now!. Thankyou Sir!

  • @TheCGEssentials

    @TheCGEssentials

    Жыл бұрын

    Glad to help

  • @plastiksurgeon9129
    @plastiksurgeon9129 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks soooo much! I’m working on a car body, trying to turn a four door into a two door. I needed to merge what was part of the rear door into the fender. I could NOT get those vertices to merge! That is UNTIL I saw your video showing to use the JOIN option. Now I’m back in business! I’m getting things all joined up, and you just learn something new every day! 👍🏾👍🏾

  • @TheCGEssentials

    @TheCGEssentials

    Жыл бұрын

    Awesome! :)

  • @plastiksurgeon9129

    @plastiksurgeon9129

    Жыл бұрын

    @@TheCGEssentials ☺️☺️

  • @vinaykhandka1993
    @vinaykhandka19933 жыл бұрын

    Whew! Finally got it. Many thanks! The 2.7 was different from the 2.8 was different from the 2.9. My learning curve is hitting some frustrating notes now 🤨

  • @ElindorBG
    @ElindorBG2 жыл бұрын

    The most useful tutorial today :)

  • @danieldemattosgoncalves1702
    @danieldemattosgoncalves1702 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you bro!

  • @ft7397
    @ft73972 жыл бұрын

    Thanks a lot it was that auto merge i was looking for

  • @mipe7755
    @mipe77553 жыл бұрын

    I literally dropped my jaw at "Turning on Splitting Edges and Faces with Vertices". We are already pretty darn close to sketchup modelling style!

  • @EmiMartinezAdrian

    @EmiMartinezAdrian

    3 жыл бұрын

    same here 😍

  • @DisneyGymGirl

    @DisneyGymGirl

    3 жыл бұрын

    Great video! Thanks!

  • @NogCube
    @NogCube3 жыл бұрын

    3:00 This helped me a lot. Great tutorial!

  • @miroslavblagojevic7635

    @miroslavblagojevic7635

    3 жыл бұрын

    you can also use the knife tool. It also works that way and it's way handier in my opinion

  • @shadows1235
    @shadows12353 жыл бұрын

    Such a blessing! Im so glad i sub!

  • @TheCGEssentials

    @TheCGEssentials

    3 жыл бұрын

    Glad you liked it! :)

  • @luciandanajalba7017
    @luciandanajalba70173 жыл бұрын

    Very helpfull!👍

  • @thonyjourdain7143
    @thonyjourdain71432 жыл бұрын

    This is gold. Thx a lot!

  • @TheCGEssentials

    @TheCGEssentials

    2 жыл бұрын

    Glad it helped!

  • @Arte_D-zs9qi
    @Arte_D-zs9qi Жыл бұрын

    very helpful

  • @oswaldokatalayo2264
    @oswaldokatalayo22642 жыл бұрын

    Thanks man. it helped me somuch! good work.

  • @TheCGEssentials

    @TheCGEssentials

    2 жыл бұрын

    Glad it helped!

  • @dez7852
    @dez7852 Жыл бұрын

    7:17 is my jam! Been driving me bananas!! Every day is more learning! And that means this channel! loving it more and more every day! EDIT: I mean the real jam is 0:01

  • @israeldelamoblas5043
    @israeldelamoblas50433 жыл бұрын

    HI! I am making the same journey, from Sketchup to Blender. Nice to have your tutorials here

  • @TheCGEssentials

    @TheCGEssentials

    3 жыл бұрын

    Glad I could help! :)

  • @terencecluttey8302
    @terencecluttey83023 жыл бұрын

    Not exactly what i was looking for... but i ended up learning something anyway... thank you.

  • @Danny-he4hi
    @Danny-he4hi2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, this is really helpful! I moddeled a figure in blender last night strictly out of vertices by starting from one vertex that i added. Then after making the wireframe i filled in the faces, but there are a lot of vertices that are on top of eachother but not snapped together and the Shade Smooth feature has no idea how to shade my figure :( But i think i can make it now with these tips :)

  • @jeanmahe8657
    @jeanmahe86572 жыл бұрын

    thanks a lot

  • @pedropc5824
    @pedropc58242 жыл бұрын

    Very good explanation bro

  • @TheCGEssentials

    @TheCGEssentials

    2 жыл бұрын

    Glad you liked it!

  • @gabisaintro
    @gabisaintro2 жыл бұрын

    yes master it is helpful

  • @PinoyBlender
    @PinoyBlender2 жыл бұрын

    thank you very helpful

  • @TheCGEssentials

    @TheCGEssentials

    2 жыл бұрын

    No worries!

  • @saturn7_dev
    @saturn7_dev2 жыл бұрын

    Hi, and thanks for all your videos you do. Ive seen lots before - especially with SketchUp. I need best advice on how to join 2x terrain squares together at the edges and its seems this video was good for that...ie 2 similiar sized terrains with big gaps where they meet up from different heights and different vertex positions also. I wanted to keep the 2x mesh as separate once adjusted so that I can make use of frustrum culling and maybe LOD's to turn off ones not needing to be shown for better performance...is the merge by distance the best bet here ? or is it easier in SketchUp ?

  • @ArrowGamingClips
    @ArrowGamingClips3 жыл бұрын

    I was watching a video course for blender, and they were using 2.8, but i am on 2.9. i was so confused because the merge button was not in the same spot for me as it was for the teacher. thanks this helps a lot!

  • @envolvedbn
    @envolvedbn2 жыл бұрын

    Man, thanks to God for your life, thanks for share your skills to us, my best wishes for you and family

  • @MawaMaverick
    @MawaMaverick3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks dude

  • @TheCGEssentials

    @TheCGEssentials

    3 жыл бұрын

    No problem!

  • @Marforaep
    @Marforaep Жыл бұрын

    helpful!

  • @adhdraw
    @adhdraw3 жыл бұрын

    eyyy thank you for this tutorial!

  • @TheCGEssentials

    @TheCGEssentials

    3 жыл бұрын

    No problem!!

  • @BrysonPrice
    @BrysonPrice3 жыл бұрын

    For some reason, in 'options', I don't see anything for 'automerge' (i'm using blender 2.9)..Do I have to enable it somewhere? thanks for the great video : )

  • @user-ds8wb7vz8h
    @user-ds8wb7vz8h2 жыл бұрын

    amazing 100000000000 thx

  • @gijbuis
    @gijbuis2 жыл бұрын

    Yes this was very helpful... as an old Sketchup user I have started to look at Blender and it is pretty overwhelming! Ideally need tutorials which show how to make some simple model using just a few tools (and please, without using hotkeys). So that way I can learn step by step instead of following a tutorial which tries to introduce the whole UI at once.

  • @TheCGEssentials

    @TheCGEssentials

    2 жыл бұрын

    So I would say that you're most likely not going to see many Blender tutorials without hotkeys - it's really a best practice to use them as they accelerate your modeling significantly. I know it's slow at first, but it's worth it in the long run!

  • @muhammetsamil
    @muhammetsamil3 жыл бұрын

    Perfect infosss

  • @TheCGEssentials

    @TheCGEssentials

    3 жыл бұрын

    :)

  • @lehnerviktor
    @lehnerviktor Жыл бұрын

    Thank you , I seen some tutorial regarding automerge all of them forget the mention it is not workin with separate object.

  • @Fix44
    @Fix443 жыл бұрын

    thank you thank you

  • @TheCGEssentials

    @TheCGEssentials

    3 жыл бұрын

    Glad you liked it!

  • @masoudmohammadi5359
    @masoudmohammadi53593 жыл бұрын

    Thanks bro

  • @TheCGEssentials

    @TheCGEssentials

    3 жыл бұрын

    No problem!

  • @bangtangirl5900
    @bangtangirl59002 жыл бұрын

    THANK YOU VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY MUCH ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @TheCGEssentials

    @TheCGEssentials

    2 жыл бұрын

    No problem 😊

  • @ZCoreStudio
    @ZCoreStudio2 жыл бұрын

    damn man all I needed is to Press M and merge by distant? was trying to import a ps2 character to UE5 since yesterday man those older models got a lots of over lapping vertices I tell you

  • @tzwhh204
    @tzwhh2042 жыл бұрын

    Top!

  • @TheCGEssentials

    @TheCGEssentials

    2 жыл бұрын

    :)

  • @AnotherCoyote
    @AnotherCoyote Жыл бұрын

    My problem is trying to preserve UVs on an animated, fully textured, model with shape keys to get it lower poly for VR. Is there a way to split UV vertices without adding new vertices/new geometry?

  • @cryptococonft9523
    @cryptococonft95232 жыл бұрын

    Is there any other way to access the m option specially if you are using a different key preference like universal 3d key preference

  • @victoralexandersilva5212
    @victoralexandersilva52123 жыл бұрын

    i can't find the option merge at last or at first? how did you get there? thx

  • @ofeyofey
    @ofeyofey2 жыл бұрын

    What is meant by "If I was to tab into it"? If you hit tab you mode change from edit to object mode or vice-versa.

  • @That.-
    @That.-2 жыл бұрын

    Me: wants to make a simple merge The alternatives I watch: “Okay now at step 17” The tutorials I don’t watch: *1 step*

  • @joshuamcknight1819
    @joshuamcknight1819 Жыл бұрын

    I have some faces that intersect. I merged 6 planes to make this star shape, and want the intersecting planes to "cut" each other so that I can adjust the geometry...but don't know how to make the intersecting edges cut each other. I could really use some help.

  • @shanephillips2454
    @shanephillips2454Ай бұрын

    Hello , can you merge a vertex into a edge ?

  • @stuartdoyle99
    @stuartdoyle992 жыл бұрын

    Is there any way to literally merge the 2 objects into one in the edit view?

  • @lovebaking2503
    @lovebaking2503 Жыл бұрын

    hi, can you show us how to delete half of the circle? thanks..

  • @amanonyoutube9591
    @amanonyoutube95912 жыл бұрын

    Whenever i merge two objects one is still grey and the other is purple and it messes with the shading where i collided them

  • @hilmiberkayozdemir2744
    @hilmiberkayozdemir27442 жыл бұрын

    How can I do this with code . I did try mergeVertices() function but its not working is There any one can help me please enviorment THRE.js js

  • @user-ws3lh5so5i
    @user-ws3lh5so5i Жыл бұрын

    IS THERE A WAY TO MERGE "BY DISTANCE" WITHOUT DELETING VERTICES?

  • @geotagger6553
    @geotagger65533 жыл бұрын

    Can you do these things with version 2.8 too?

  • @TheCGEssentials

    @TheCGEssentials

    3 жыл бұрын

    Probably. Not sure if the menu options are in the exact same place or not

  • @magdalenadutkowska6472
    @magdalenadutkowska64723 жыл бұрын

    great tutorial, I have a slightly different question, sometimes I use boolean and have trouble selecting vertexes. Do you know how to select an entire row of vertexes at once by clicking with the mouse? or a whole row of faces. I know it can be done not only by marking.

  • @TheCGEssentials

    @TheCGEssentials

    3 жыл бұрын

    I don't understand what booleans have to do with vertex selection, but try tabbing into edit mode, click on one vertex, then do a Control Click and click on the vertex on the other end

  • @PoliticalPandit888
    @PoliticalPandit8883 жыл бұрын

    Is this available in 2.79 ??

  • @xr_xharprazoraxtra5428
    @xr_xharprazoraxtra54282 жыл бұрын

    strange thing : sometimes the "merge vertices" options will show up, sometimes don't, how to fix it ?

  • @dylanmello
    @dylanmello11 ай бұрын

    Nice and clear video! However I'm still having my issues. I am trying to attach a character's face (object 1) to a sphere which is the rest of the head (object 2). I am removing the mesh from the sphere to create a space that will house the face. Then I'm using ctrl J to join the 2 objects as 1, and then attaching the mesh of the face to the mesh of the sphere by snapping the vertexes together. No matter how I do this, and no matter how neatly I connect the mesh, shade smooth comes out all wrong. Hard shadows and messed up lighting form in the areas where both objects are joined. I've tried snapping the vertexes of both meshes together, I've tried grid fill, I've tried hitting the F key to join the mesh, I've tried selecting all and merging by distance. Shade smooth is still causing chaos. In the dozens of videos and forums I've been through, nobody has ever explained how to prevent this

  • @dylanmello

    @dylanmello

    11 ай бұрын

    Forgot to mention the face was created using a curve path, the head was created using a mesh UV sphere. Are these not allowed to be joined together?

  • @dylanmello

    @dylanmello

    11 ай бұрын

    I figured it out. Select all mesh then Shift N. Shouts to @dariusyoung

  • @Harsimran_-
    @Harsimran_-3 жыл бұрын

    Sir...how can i merge the vertices of two different objects ??

  • @addictedfoolgamer1970

    @addictedfoolgamer1970

    3 жыл бұрын

    The last section is called “joining objects so vertices can merge” - check it out. That might help?

  • @VeilSide996
    @VeilSide996 Жыл бұрын

    06:52

  • @_____._..--_
    @_____._..--_3 жыл бұрын

    that auto merge Vertices... WTFFFFF

  • @masoudmohammadi5359
    @masoudmohammadi53593 жыл бұрын

    Are you have telegram?

  • @TheCGEssentials

    @TheCGEssentials

    3 жыл бұрын

    I don't know what this means

  • @masoudmohammadi5359

    @masoudmohammadi5359

    3 жыл бұрын

    For questions

  • @douchymcdouche169

    @douchymcdouche169

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@TheCGEssentials He's talking about a chat app called Telegram.

  • @BartholomewThouThird
    @BartholomewThouThird2 жыл бұрын

    why do you put that dog in ur videos y?

  • @TheCGEssentials

    @TheCGEssentials

    2 жыл бұрын

    Because she's awesome!

  • @frixbel4243
    @frixbel42432 жыл бұрын

    cringe

  • @TheCGEssentials

    @TheCGEssentials

    2 жыл бұрын

    Nah