# Combine faces?

**URL:** <https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/combine-faces/8786>\
**Category:** Modeling Questions\
**Created:** [August 27, 2020, 1:42pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/combine-faces/8786 "2020-08-27T13:42:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 12\
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**Author:** ![Detgfdty56467](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@Detgfdty56467](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Detgfdty56467)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 1:42pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/combine-faces/8786/1 "2020-08-27T13:42:47Z")

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Watching some of your more advanced youtube videos, there is an operation that happens sometimes and is never shown. He goes from this:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/2X/c/c3ce2b40a32de823df8f9a5027f3996bda33d139.jpeg)  
And removes the “lines”/“edges” between the multiple faces.  
Is this possible to do on Shapr3d? Is he exporting to some other app and combining the faces there? If so, which program is used?  
Thank you!

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**Author:** ![Detgfdty56467](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@Detgfdty56467](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Detgfdty56467)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 1:43pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/combine-faces/8786/2 "2020-08-27T13:43:45Z")

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Here is the after image:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/2X/b/b42e1ba3ca2aaa9023db1c972abfa066f3db10e0.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![Victor\_Shapr3D](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/victor_shapr3d/32/3502_2.png) [@Victor\_Shapr3D](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Victor_Shapr3D)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 2:06pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/combine-faces/8786/3 "2020-08-27T14:06:15Z")

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Hi, the body was generated from a loft of layers of sketches. To make the lines invisible simply hide the sketches on the Items window as shown below:

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**Author:** ![Detgfdty56467](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@Detgfdty56467](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Detgfdty56467)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 3:24pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/combine-faces/8786/4 "2020-08-27T15:24:18Z")

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Thanks for your quick reply Victor. I can see that on that video the lines were the sketch planes. However, I have a different problem. On my design, it looks there are a couple of edges I would like to remove:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/2X/b/b68c324d21534f6ee9af58f8a95f9b9c44eb235a.jpeg)  
(This was created by the union of three solids)  
Can I remove these edges easily, or will I have to re-do the solid using the loft operation?

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**Author:** ![Istvan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/istvan/32/23668_2.png) [@Istvan](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Istvan)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 6:13pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/combine-faces/8786/5 "2020-08-27T18:13:46Z")

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Hi, you can’t, but why do you want to remove them?

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**Author:** ![Detgfdty56467](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@Detgfdty56467](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Detgfdty56467)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 6:21pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/combine-faces/8786/6 "2020-08-27T18:21:49Z")

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I am using shaper to demonstrate the conceptual design, so I am interested in how good the model looks (I am not going to fabricate the design for now). I have noticed that some of these artifacts confuse the people when I show the design…

It is not a big problem, but it would be great if it was possible to combine faces or somehow remove these…

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**Author:** ![Istvan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/istvan/32/23668_2.png) [@Istvan](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Istvan)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 6:25pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/combine-faces/8786/7 "2020-08-27T18:25:28Z")

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Got it. If you switch to screenshot mode (under export) you can turn off edges completely.

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**Author:** ![Detgfdty56467](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@Detgfdty56467](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Detgfdty56467)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 12:36am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/combine-faces/8786/8 "2020-08-28T00:36:25Z")

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I appreciate the suggestion. Thank you.

In general I actually like to have edges on, I feel that it is easier to understand the model. Like I said, this is not a big deal… Consider this conversation as my vote for ‘combine faces’ to be a future development…

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**Author:** ![eaglekatarina](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/eaglekatarina/32/11261_2.png) [@eaglekatarina](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/eaglekatarina)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 1:49am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/combine-faces/8786/9 "2020-08-28T01:49:20Z")

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I have the same issue. Showing to a client, makes it seem unsightly, and they ask if there’ll actually be a line there.

I wouldn’t mind just being able to delete that edge, like deleting a chamfer/fillet.

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**Author:** ![Detgfdty56467](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@Detgfdty56467](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Detgfdty56467)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 3:25pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/combine-faces/8786/10 "2020-08-28T15:25:37Z")

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Depending on your exact solid there might be easier solutions for this. In my case, I was able to get rid of the edges by using sweep to create a new solid and then just intersecting to keep the wholes:  
(I actually created a video for this, but it won’t let me upload because I am a new user…)  
Hopefully this information helps someone else with the same problem.

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**Author:** ![Victor\_Shapr3D](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/victor_shapr3d/32/3502_2.png) [@Victor\_Shapr3D](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Victor_Shapr3D)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 3:35pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/combine-faces/8786/11 "2020-08-28T15:35:04Z")

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Hi, @Detgfdty56467 thanks for sharing your workaround.  
You should be able to post the video now 🙂

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**Author:** ![Detgfdty56467](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@Detgfdty56467](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Detgfdty56467)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 3:52pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/combine-faces/8786/12 "2020-08-28T15:52:08Z")

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(Thanks for the permissions)  
Here is the video:

[https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/2X/2/2b005022529838a6715e3ae0a75d1a11d976f973.mp4](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/2X/2/2b005022529838a6715e3ae0a75d1a11d976f973.mp4)