Collapsing Coincident Nodes

Coincident nodes can be collapsed using the “Sculpt | Collapse Coincident Nodes” menu command. The procedure is as follows.

1. Set the cursor mode to Select Nodes.
2. Select the nodes to be collapsed. Note that only coincident nodes will be collapsed so there is no harm in selecting nodes that are not coincident.
3. Give the “Collapse Coincident Nodes” command.
4. Specify the coincidence tolerance, i.e. the tolerance used to establish whether two nodes are coincident. (This value defaults to the tolerance for coincidence specified on the Sculpting page of the Preferences dialog box.)

Nodes that are connected by a Joint are not collapsed.

Note that bizarre modifications to the topology of the model will occur if the coincidence tolerance is too coarse.

Note also that various other sculpt commands offer the option to collapse coincident nodes created during that sculpt operation.