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Make Polygon

The Make Polygon tool uses the currently-selected vertices to create a polygon. The order in which the vertices were created (or selected) determines the direction of the polygons' normal. When run with an edge loop selection, a new polygon is created from those edges, and the selection order is not important. This command can be triggered by pressing the P key or by using Geometry > Polygon > Make, which offers several additional user-definable options.

The following polygon types are available.

Faces

Produces a regular polygon, based on the drawn vertices.

Subdivs

Generates a Subdivision Surface polygon, eliminating the need to toggle the newly-created geometry manually.

Curves

Generates a Spline curve from the points with the additional option to Close Curve, joining the in and out vertices into a loop.

SplinePatch

Produces a spline patch curve for further patching; this requires 3 or 4 vertices.

Catmull-Clark

Generates a Pixar Catmull-Clark Subdivision Surfaces polygon, eliminating the need to toggle the newly-created geometry manually.

Polyline

Generates a string of continuous polylines, similar to a curve but made from a string of line segments. These are often used as hair guides.

Auto

Matches the polygon type from a neighbor polygon connected to the selected vertex. If the selected vertices are floating, Modo chooses the Faces polygon type.