How to Flatten Faces in Blender
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- Welcome back to another grand tutorial, yada yada yada…
In this video I show you how to use the In-Blender Plugin, Loop Tools, that has helped me tremendously with the way I model in Blender!
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This was one of the best tips I've come across since learning to use blender. This is invaluable for flattening the bottom of models being sent to 3D printers. You saved me hours of fiddling. Thank you so much!
mrquicky you’re welcome man! I’m here to serve you guys!
OMG, this just saved me from plunging my foot through my screen. I was seriously on the edge. Thanks for the tip. Legendary!
THANK YOU! Finally, someone who actually gets it!
Thank you so much!! I have followed tutorials before to flatten faces and they have just showed me to do the S tactic, this is SO much better!!
I'm doing paper models and having those almost invisible triangles is a thing in blender but in paper one would have open edges and thing won't fit as they are intended to, so it's physically impossible.
thanks man, you surely had saved me hours/days of frustration :)
p.s: your attitude and editing style has a lot of personality. you make things clear and entertaining; features that sadly a lot of blender tutorials lack in one or even both.
Thank you so much! I hope this tutorial served you well!
Oh God! Man, you save a lot of my time, I spent hours changing my model to flat edges, thanks!
5 years after, still useful. A lifesaver :) thanks
Great... I'd seen LoopTools in passing but didn't realise it did this kind of average-normal flattening. It's cute, and I love it.
After 2 of days struggling flatten the faces you came like an angel from haven bro. Thanks a lot!
You're funny and upbeat....Thanks for putting it together the way you do!
Thank you so much my man!
The best tutorial on that particular issue!
You helped me fix it in the best way. Thank you!!
This just opened my eyes in a big way! Thanks man!
I began learning how to use Blender this week and I would like to thank you for telling me about this :)
you're welcome!
Thanks for telling me about these tools. They have been super helpful for all my costume projects, especially the relax and flatten tools.
Thanks, this helped a lot!
And I like the editing style :D
i know its 2 years old but man you save me from ton of work thank you !!!
Bro this just saved me so much time. Thanks
no problem dude!
Flattening faces on an alignment is the one thing that has me struggling on my transition from maya to blender. It's painful.
This definitely helps. cheers!
Oh yes, this is exactly what I needed. Thanks!
Wasn't sure this was what I needed but I tried it and.....boom! Thanks thumbs up 👍
Thanks so much for the enlightenment, also those edits really caught me off guard, I was really annoyed at my situation and you not only solved my problem but fixed my mood.
J Amy Aye! You’re welcome my guy! I do try to keep it spicy for you guys!
Dude, thank you. Been racking my brain trying to figure this out. I subbed.
You're welcome my dude!
This addon is a life saver, thank you
excellent tutorial you really helped me out with making my climbing wall vertices
This is indeed a REALLY awesome tool. Thanks for sharing!
It's the perfect tool when you want to flat things out in the average angle based on the selection. As an example, I was working on making a bamboo pole and I wanted the tip to be diagonally cut & flat (like a bamboo spear). Scale tool to flat it out, then rotation deforms the roundness. This tool allow it to be flat and retain the round form.
Creations Maxo could not have explained it any better!! Glad it helped!
You are a lifesaver! Thanks for this!
In the latest version if you hit z twice it will toggle between global and normal axis which will make that scaling to 0 not destroy your angle.
Well kill the point of my tutorial why don't ya! Lol, jk. Thank you for the tip man!
Thanks. This is something that I have looked for many times, but been unable to find.
Thank you man. What`s really great - this tool had been there since oldest versions of blender. Dunno why it doesn`t activate by deafault, very usefull stuff.
Thx! I have always searched it! ;)
Игорь Максимов you’re welcome my dude!
That's a sub and a like from me with that easy and quick tutorial, absolutey perfect.
Awesome tutorial/tips . Thank You!!
I have loop tools but never clicked on flatten. Thanks
I'd like you to know it people like you that give me faith in humanity. You see something being done wrong and yuh fix it. Thank you!
Just now finding this. Thanks for the tip!
Thanks a lot! This works really nicely.
Great tool! It seems to average out the difference between faces and i sometimes wish it would flatten to a specific face ( like first or last selected ) Thanks for the vid
great video - concise, funny, and helpful. thank you.
Amazing ty , still great 4 years later.
Glad to hear it!
thank you I was looking for the answer for 3 hours lol
Thank you so much❤️❤️❤️!!! I saved my precious time
I'll go a step further thanks to you.🙏
Thank you, this saved me.
So easy. Brilliant!
this is exactly what i needed, thank you!
Glad it helped!
I love you. Thanks man for the video
Yo yo yo, Lucas Here, i was looking for a way to get rid of that weird shadowing from cycles when we have a twisted polygon, like if we have a quad polygon that is being shaded as 2 triads because of their vertex positions, and guess what? this technic also solves this problem, THANK YOU MAN!
Brilliant 👌😍
thank you for your service
Awesome, thanks dude
Awesome! Thanks mate :)
Thank you sooo much!! This really helped me!
No problem dude!
Thanks, that helped a lot
Thanks, big time saver. A note I'd add about 'affected non planar triangles.Pivot Point on active element is awesome with transform orientations custom Z axis. I then to SIZE it to flat with the 0 key. Also useful, duplicating a plane, then making it an object (p); that may be used to Boolean Mod verts for new unaffected faces. Not easy sounding but a great work process.
Very good tutorial, thanks
saved me manually editing for 1 hour haaha, great vid me
an. subbed
Superb!
Thanks a lot!
It's funny I find this video when I needed the opposite of flattening to the Z axis. I had been doing the loop one recommended and it wasn't doing what I wanted it to do 🤦♂️🤣
Thanks for the video !!!!
yeah... "W" doesn't bring up any options, it only switches cursor selection methods?-
Edit: OMG! so this is a thing... (if you use the default 2.8 bindings it's just "Right Click" - if you use right click to select; then it's "W").
It's always nice to know there is going to be atleast one person in the comments that is going to have the same problem/question as me 😁
I had to install the loop tools in Preferences -> Add-ons
This is probably exactly the answer I'm looking for. Will test when I get home tonight
Thanks! You just saved me.
TREMENDOUS!!!!
Omg! Thank you so much!!!
Thanks bro !
Hey man, this is a very cool tutorial. I'm not seeing this functionality in Blender 3.1.2 though. I have Mesh Tools installed, but I cannot find this flat function. I appreciate if you could help. Very nice video, and I'm subscribed!
Try updating to 3.2... The flatten function does exist in this version
dude thanks. bridging is in this looptool as well. I was wonder where it is after coming from 2.79
thank you very much man
thank you so much, this took 3 seconds to fix
Thank you this is really cool.
Is it possible that we can flatten the spline without loosing it's original length?
Mmmm. Not sure. Try looking that one up on Blender Stack Exchange! Very helpful website for questions like that!
Very based, you talk like the regular kind of lazy guy. I like it! Bedder than all the computerised pitch voice 1Min tutorials with no base knowledge they just watch the 1Min Videos by them self and know nothing. It is so frustrating to end up in stars of Polys witch comes out of your model.
Thanks dude
Nice!
Thank you very mich indeed, good sir! : )
thank you for help
Thank you!!!
thank you very much
THANK YOU
Thanks!
Thanks Dude!
Thank you
What's with all the triangles, Pythagoras?! Jesus Christ, you should be disgusted, and ashamed of yourself! 🤣🤣🤐Seriously though, almost a year and a half later, and this video still holds up. I just discovered loop tools, and friggin LOVE IT! I come from Cinema 4D, and it doesn't have anything like the "to sphere" or circle function so it all has to be done manually. Try pulling that off with a 32 sided hexahedron without tearing you scalp out, and throwing it across the street, lol.
Thanks!!!
When flatten faces it's possible to lock somehow the other faces to achieve a 100% flatten faces model? (I'm a complete outsider of Blender) thnks for the tutorial, super useful !👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Isaac R.C. I’m not sure if I’ve found a way to “lock” the faces. Sorry about that one!
@@PraxisVisuals Nevermind, I'm designing real objects structured with plane faces and need to predict its geometry to be constructed from flat printed shapes, I guess i'll be chasing non-planar polys all over the model until exhaustion.
thanks fam
Just discovered this video.. i press 'W' in the newest-ish version of Blender and W triggers different selection tools instead
same here
just discover with the faces selected, mouse right clic and the menu will pop up
Love u bruh
Thankyou
0:19 For this tutorial your gonna need blender.. and your beautiful faces...
Phill of course
I can’t find the loop tool add on
YOU'RE A FUCKING LIFE SAVER!!
Has anyone got a way to lock faces flat? I am trying this method on a lowpoly model and end up chasing myself around as it affects surrounding faces?
Loop FUCKING tools, baby!
edit .. select faces ... HIt 'w" looptools - flatten.
who dislikes this is a heartless bot 😂
While you give an excellent tutorial in every way- it still doesn’t solve a certain serious flattening problem. If you have a shape that’s not merely a quad, and it has crinkles in the face, how do you flatten it without totally rearranging the outside connecting vertices. Also what you just did can simply be done by flattening along normal Z. I guess my primary question is, how to fix crinkled surfaces that refuse to fix? I’m familiar with using edge offset, but that fails sometimes.
I see. Well depending on your mesh, and how much flattening you need, you could manually slide each vert. to a more flatter position, then use the technique shown in the video. That way you're giving more information to the flattening tool which in turn will help not to rearrange too much... I'm not sure if there is a way to flatten something without rearranging neighboring vertices...
Sorry I couldn't help you on this one!
@@PraxisVisuals nonono- you were actually QUITE helpful. I’ve eventually figured it out in the way you just described. It seems custom axis/orbit point and rotate individual vertices with snapping on is best. Thanks Praxis!
@@greatsol2444 Good good! Glad you got it worked out! :)
doesn't work for me i don't know why c:
Scale, Z, 0, Enter
No sir. That scales it to a O on whatever orientation you have it set to (global, local, normal, etc...) while yes, you could make a custom orientation, but that takes much longer than simply using Loop Tools.
@@PraxisVisuals thank you sir!
God damn dood. Hours of time wasted, hours. Why didnt you tell me this before!!!!!!!, i mean your vids been up for two years, but daaaaamn