Mesh - Edit mode - Mesh menu

Edit Mode - Mesh Menu

The Mesh Menu in Edit Mode contains the tools to manipulate the mesh geometry in Edit mode. It just exists for Mesh Objects.

Lots of functionality that could also belong here can also be found in the Tool Shelf. The difference is that the tools in the tool shelf are easier to access. And so it contains the most used tools for the daily work. While the Mesh menu contains the not so often used tools. Or tools where you use the hotkey anyway. Delete for example.

Legacy

The legacy sub menu contains tools that exists in the tool shelf already. It's the old way to do things. Different to the tools in the tool shelf, these tools are usually modal. And performs once. You have to call them again in case you want to repeat the tool.

Bisect

Bisect cuts geometry along a plane. This description is a bit misleading though. You simply cut through the whole geometry by defining a line. And the cut goes through the geometry from the current view.

When you have set your cut and release the mouse then you reveal a widget with which you can move and rotate the cut. Clicking at the arrow and drag moves the cut. Clicking at the circle and drag rotates the cut.

Last Operator Bisect

Knife tool

The Knife tool cuts the geometry, and adds edges. When it crosses existing geometry then it adds a vertice at the crossing point.

Usage: activate the tool, left click to define the starting point. This can also be a point in the middle of a face. But ideally you choose an existing vertice or an edge as the start and endpoints. The knife tool tries to snap to them when you get close with the mouse cursor.

When done press Enter or Spacebar to confirm. Right click abandons the operation.

When you create a vertice in the middle of a face, then the knife tool will try to connect this vertice by an existing vertice of this face when you confirm with spacebar.

Hotkey functionality in the footer text

Have a look at the footer when you work with this tool. Here you will find further instructions and hotkeys.

Enter, Pad Enter, Spacebar - confirm

Esc key, RMB - cancel the operation

LMB start the cut

Double LMB - close the cut

E - create new cut

Ctrl or Shift while dragging - Snap to the middle of an edge

Z - cut through the whole geometry, also the backfaces.

MMB - pan the view.

Alt MMB - rotate the view.

Transform

To Sphere

Shapes a selection of objects into the shape of a sphere. The calculation happens with the object origins.

In Object mode this tools requires to have more than one object selected.

Usage

Select the vertices, activate the tool, then drag the mouse in the 3D viewport. In the header you will read the current factor then. Which tells you how close you are towards the sphere shape.

Last Operator To Sphere

Proportional editing

Enables proportional editing. Activating proportional editing reveals further settings.

To Circle

Transforms selected vertices into a circular arrangement.
Useful for reshaping loops, aligning geometry, or creating radial structures with precision.

Usage

Select the loop of mesh geometry, activate the tool. In the Last Operator panel, you can then adjust properties after the operation.

Last Operator To Sphere

Shear

Shear shears the selection.

In Object mode this tools requires to have more than one object selected.

The shear tool works along a imaginary 2d plane. The shear axis controls if the items are sheared along the x or the y axes of this plane. This is the plane along which the transformation happens. You can shear along the x or the y axis of this plane.

To make things even more complicated, the orientation of this imaginary plane is defined by the Axis and Axis Ortho items below.

Last Operator Shear

Offset

Adjust an offset.

Axis

Defines one axis of the imaginary shear axis plane.

Axis Ortho

Defines the other axis of the imaginary shear axis plane.

Orientation

Choose the orientation for the shear action.

Mirror Editing

Enable mirror editing.

Proportional editing

Enables proportional editing. Activating proportional editing reveals further settings.

Bend

Bends the selection.

Push/Pull

It pushes or pulls the object positions relative to the center of the selection.

In Object mode this tool requires to have more than one object selected.

Last Operator Push/Pull

Proportional editing

Enables proportional editing. Activating proportional editing reveals further settings.

Warp

Warps a mesh selection between two defined points.

Last operator Warp

Min

The start point.

Max

The end point.

Randomize

This tool allows randomizes the positions of the selected vertices.

Last Operator Randomize

Shrink/Fatten

Shrink/Fatten scales the selected geometry along its normals. Transform orientation and Pivot point gets ignored.

A positive value pushes the vertices outwards. A negative value pushes the vertices inwards.

Last Operator Shrink/Fatten

The Last Operator Shrink/Fatten panel gives you tools to adjust the Shrink/Fatten operation. Here you have numeric input for the strength and a few more options.

Proportional editing

Enables proportional editing. Activating proportional editing reveals further settings.

Skin Resize

This tool requires to have a skin modifier at the mesh. It scales the thickness of the skin.

While the operation you will see in the header the strength value for the skin.

Last Operator Skin Resize

Vector

Adjust the position values for the three values.

Scale X, Y, Z

Limit the position relative to the source object.

Orientation

Orientation is a drop-down box choose the type of orientation for the mirroring action.

Mirror Editing

Enable mirror editing.

Proportional editing

Enables proportional editing. Activating proportional editing reveals further settings.

Move Texture Space

This tool relies at the move tool. With the difference that it moves the texture space instead of the object. It has also a very special use case, and just works with a material with a Texture Coordinate / Generated node. And requires to have the shading at Material or Rendered to see a result in the viewport.

In the viewport you will see the UV cage in black color. In the header you will see the values for the current position of the UV cage.

Note that once done and applied, there is no way to reset the UV cage back to zero. When you repeat the operation, then the values will start at 0 again. Even when the UV cage is already offset.

Last Operator Move

Move

Adjust in which directions you want to transform.

Orientation

Choose the orientation.

Mirror Editing

Enable mirror editing.

Proportional editing

Enables proportional editing. Activating proportional editing reveals further settings.

Scale Texture Space

Scale Texture space is similar to the Move texture Space. With the only difference that it scales the UV space instead of moving it.

This tool relies at the scale tool. With the difference that it scales the texture space instead of the object. It has also a very special use case, and just works with a material with a Texture Coordinate / Generated node. And requires to have the shading at Material or Rendered to see a result in the viewport.

In the viewport you will see the UV cage in black color. In the header you will see the values for the current position of the UV cage.

Note that once done and applied, there is no way to reset the UV cage back to zero. When you repeat the operation, then the values will start at 0 again. Even when the UV cage is already offset.

Last Operator Resize

Scale

Adjust in which directions you want to transform.

Orientation

Choose the orientation.

Mirror Editing

Enable mirror editing.

Proportional editing

Enables proportional editing. Activating proportional editing reveals further settings.

Set Dimensions

Edit Mode Only!

Normally all scale operations in Bforartists are relative to the current selection and dimensions. And you always start with a relative value of 1.

Set dimensions allows to scale mesh selections in absolute world values. No matter how the initial values are. The new values gets set in the Last Operator.

Set dimensions is an add-on. You can turn it off in the add-ons section of the user preferences when you want.

Last Operator Set Dimensions

New Dimensions

When you activate the tool then you will see the world coordinates of the selection. Change the values to other world coordinates.

Mirror

Mirror mirrors the selected geometry along the defined axis.

Interactive Mirror

Mirror by hotkeys. You activate the tool, type in x for x global for example, or x x for x local. And the selection gets mirrored

X Global, Y Global etc.

Mirrors the selection around the chosen axis.

Last Operator Mirror

The Last Operator Mirror panel gives you tools to adjust the mirror action.

Orientation

Orientation is a drop-down box choose the type of orientation for the mirroring action.

Constraint Axis

Constraint Axis gives you again the possibility to define the mirror axis. You can choose more than one axis here.

Mirror Vertex Group

This tool requires to have a vertex group assigned. It mirrors the selected vertex group.

This tool works only with a perfectly symmetrical mesh along the local X axis. Vertices that have no corresponding vertex on the other side will not be affected.

Last Operator Mirror Vertex Group

Snap

Choose several methods to snap one element to another. The menu items should be self explaining.

Last operator Snap Selection to Cursor

Single Operators

Duplicate

Duplicates the current selection.

When you duplicate a selection, then it sticks to the mouse until you left click. And moves around. A right click repositions the duplicated geometry at its original location.

Last Operator Duplicate

Mode

Not to find out. No tool tip, no entry in the Blender manual. Good Job Blender Developers.

Move X, Y, Z

Adjust the position.

Orientation

Orientation is a drop-down box choose the type of orientation for the mirroring action.

Mirror Editing

Enable Mirror Editing.

Proportional editing

Enables proportional editing. Activating proportional editing reveals further settings.

Extrude

Extrude is a sub menu with several extrude methods. The contend is dependent of the mesh select mode.

Note that the tool shelf also contains extrude functionality. And a few methods here are a double. These are marked as legacy here in the manual.

Extrude Vertices

Extrudes out the selected vertices by moving the mouse.

Last Operator Extrude Only Vertices and Move

Move X Y Z

The coordinates for the extruded geometry.

Orientation

Choose the type of orientation, in which coordinate system the action should happen.

Mirror Editing

Enable Mirror Editing.

Proportional editing

Enables proportional editing. Activating proportional editing reveals further settings.

Extrude Edges

Extrudes out the selected edges by moving the mouse.

Last Operator Extrude Only Edges and Move

Orientation

Choose the type of orientation, in which coordinate system the action should happen.

Mirror Editing

Enable Mirror Editing.

Proportional editing

Enables proportional editing. Activating proportional editing reveals further settings.

Extrude Faces (Legacy)

Extrude the selected faces along their normals. This functionality is part of the Extrude Region tool in the tool shelf.

Last Operator Extrude Region and Move

Orientation

The extrusion can have different orientations. The menu items should be self explaining.

Mirror Editing

Enable Mirror Editing.

Proportional editing

Enables proportional editing. Activating proportional editing reveals further settings.

Extrude Faces along Normals (Legacy)

In the toolshelf it's the Extrude Along Normals tool. Extrudes the selection along local normals. You won't see a widget here. Simply drag.

The method works the same in all Mesh select modes. Vertice, Edge and Face Mode.

Last Operator Extrude Region and Shrink/Fatten

Proportional editing

Enables proportional editing. Activating proportional editing reveals further settings.

Extrude Individual Faces ( Legacy)

In the tool shelf the tool is called Extrude Individual. Extrudes the selection along local normals of each individual face. You won't see a widget here. Simply drag.

The method works the same in all Mesh select modes. Vertice, Edge and Face Mode.

Last Operator Extrude Individual Faces and Move

Proportional editing

Enables proportional editing. Activating proportional editing reveals further settings.

Extrude Manifold (Legacy)

The same tool exists in the tool shelf. Extrude, dissolve Edges whose faces form a flat surface, and intersect new edges.

The method works the same in all Mesh select modes. Vertice, Edge and Face Mode.

Last Operator Extrude Manifold

Orientation

The widget can have different orientations. The menu items should be self explaining.

Mirror Editing

Enable Mirror Editing.

Proportional editing

Enables proportional editing. Activating proportional editing reveals further settings.

Extrude Repeat

All modes. Extrudes into the Z depth of the viewport, and repeats the extrusion by the adjusted amount. You have to adjust the extrusion afterwards.

Last Operator Extrude Repeat

Steps

How much repetitions.

Offset X / Y / Z

The offset in the x y and z direction.

Scale Offset

The scale factor of the extruded element.

Spin

All modes. Extrudes in a curve form.

Last Operator Spin

Merge

Merges the geometry.

At Center, At Cursor, Collapse, At First, At Last

Merges the geometry with the given methods.

The methods At First and At Last just shows when you have vertices selected, and there is at least one first vertice and one last vertice to merge at. So minimum two. But you can have more than one vertices selected.

Last Operator Merge

By Distance

Merge the vertices by their distance to each other. This tool is meant to remove double vertices at the same location.

Last Operator Merge by Distance

Split

Selection

Split splits the edges between the selected vertices. It creates two edges out of one. And splits the edge by that.

The mode doesn't matter. There will always the edges be splitted.

Faces by Edges / Faces by Edges by Vertices

Splits selected edges so that each neighbor face gets its own copy. You have two methods here.

Last Operator Edge Split

Type

Choose the method again.

Separate

Separate separates the selected geometry, and creates a new object. The geometry becomes uneditable, since it is now a new object. You will have to leave the Edit mode, select the new object, and re-enter Edit mode when you want to edit it.

Knife Project

Knife Project uses an object as a knife to cut edges into a mesh.

Usage: Create a cube. Create a circle. Move the circle in front of the cube so that the geometry does not overlap the cube geometry. Enter Edit Mode with the cube. In the outliner hold down Shift, and select the circle. Note that you can select the circle in the 3d view with holding down Ctrl.
Now that both objects are selected, go into front view, or whatever view you want. Just make sure that in the view the circle covers a part of the cube. Projection of the cut happens from the current view. Click the Knife Project tool.

Last Operator Knife Project

Cut through

The cut goes through the whole object when the Cut through checkbox is ticked.

Convex Hull

Creates a convex hull around the outside of selected vertices. The old faces and inlaying vertices gets removed.

Last Operator Convex Hull

Delete Unused

Removes vertices that are not part of the convex geometry.

Use existing Faces

Use existing input faces that lies on the hull where possible. This option allows to have N-Gons in the convex hull.

Symmetrize

The Symmetrize tool mirrors the selected geometry symmetrical along a world axis.

Last Operator Symmetrize

Direction

Direction is a drop down box define the mirroring direction.

Threshold

Adjust a distance after which the mirroring should happen, relative to the mirror axis. 0 means it mirrors the geometry directly at the axis.

Snap to Symmetry

Tries to snap the selected vertices symmetrical along the chosen world orientation.

Last Operator Snap to Symmetry

Normals

This menu contains functionality about dealing with normals. Normals influences the shading and the direction of a face. They can point inwards or outwards. And edges can be split. So that two adjacent faces have a sharp edge.

You can activate the display of normals in the Overlays panel in Edit mode.

Recalculate Outside

Recalculates the normals of the selected geometry so that everything points outwards.

Recalculate Inside

Recalculates the normals of the selected geometry so that everything points inwards.

Last Operator Recalc Outside

Inside

Inside recalculates the normals of the selected geometry so that everything points inwards.

Flip

Flips the direction of the normals of the selected geometry.

Last Operator Flip Normals

Custom Normals only

Only flip the custom loop normals of the selected elements.

Set from Faces

Sets the vertex normals from the selected faces. This tool requires to have Auto smooth activated!

Last Operator Set Normals from Faces

Keep Sharp Edges

Don’t set sharp edges to faces.

Rotate

Rotate the normals of the selected vertices manually.

Last Operator Rotate Normals

Orientation

Choose the type of orientation, in which coordinate system the action should happen.

Mirror Editing

Enable mirror editing.

Point Normals to Target

All vertex normals will point to a specific target. This target can be chosen from hotkeys. They show in the header.

Pressing R for Reset will reset the normals to where they were before the operation.

Last Operator Point Normals to Target

Average

Average all of the normals in each fan of faces between sharp edges at a vertex.

Corner Angle

Set all vertices by corner angle.

Last Operator Average Normals

Type

Choose the average type again.

Copy Vectors

Copies the normals of a single selected vertice.

Paste Vectors

Pastes the normals from a formerly copied selected vertice to the currently selected vertice.

Last Operator Normals Vector Tools

Absolute Coordinates

When you paste normals then they get pasted relative to the current orientation of the selected vertice. With absolute coordinates the normals gets pasted in world coordinates.

Smooth Vectors

Smooth custom normals towards the adjacent vertex normals.

Last Operator Smooth Normals Vectors

Factor

Adjust how strong the smoothen should be.

Set Face Strength

Face strength gets used by the Weighted Normals modifier. See Face Influence checkbox.

Set selected faces to either a weak, a medium or a strong face strength.

Last Operator Face Normal Strength

Set Value

Unticked it selects by face strength by weak, medium or high. Ticked it sets the face strength to weak, medium or high.

Face Strength

Resets the normal of the selected element(s).

Shading

Sets the shading of the selected elements to either smooth or flat.

Shading is under the hood a normals operation.

Smooth Edges

Clear as sharp marked edges and set them to smooth.

Last Operator Clear Sharp

Vertices

Consider vertices instead of edges to select which edges to set to smooth.

Sharp Edges

Mark selected edges as sharp.

Last Operator Mark Sharp

Vertices

Consider vertices instead of edges to select which edges to set to sharp.

Smooth Vertices

Clear as sharp marked edges and set them to smooth. But the calculation happens from the selected vertices instead of the edges.

Last Operator Clear Sharp from Vertices

Vertices

Consider vertices instead of edges to select which edges to set to sharp.

Sharp Vertices

Mark selected edges as sharp. But the calculation happens from the selected vertices instead of the edges.

Last Operator Mark Sharp from Vertices

Vertices

Consider vertices instead of edges to select which edges to set to sharp.

Weights

The Weights menu contains Weight tools. Those tools are meant to modify the weight mapping. At characters for example. The Weight Tools requires Vertex Groups to work with. Such Vertex groups gets created when you do weight painting at a character for example. Here is defined what bone is connected to what vertice.

In Edit Mode the weight mapping doesn't show. Here you work with the Vertex Groups.

In Weight paint mode the weight painting shows with colors. Here you usually paint the weighting.

This menu items also exists in Weight Paint mode.

Legacy sub menu

Contains legacy menu items. They can currently not be activated.

Normalize All

While weight painting it can happen that a vertice gets several weightings assigned. Normalize all normalizes the weight of all Vertex groups so that the values for the single vertices in the sum is 1.

Last Operator Normalize all

Subset

Subset is a drop-down menu choose the Subset method.

Lock Active

Keep the values of the active group while normalizing others.

Normalize

Normalize normalizes the weight of the current selected Vertex group so that the values for the single vertices in the sum is 1. Means when there is influence from other groups, then those values are kept, but the one for the current group gets lowered so that the sum is 1.

The Last Operator Normalize panel has no adjustable settings.

Mirror

Mirror Vertex Group mirrors Vertex Groups and flips weights and/or names. It only edits selected Vertices. It flips when both sides are selected. Otherwise it copies from Unselected.

Last Operator Mirror Vertex Group

Invert

Invert inverts the weight painting for the selected vertex group.

Last Operator Invert Vertex Group

Subset

Subset is a drop-down menu choose the Subset method.

Add Weights

Add Vertices from Groups that have zero Weighting before inverting.

Remove Weights

Remove Vertices from Groups that have zero weight after inverting.

Clean

Removes Vertex group assignments that are not required from the active vertex group.

Last Operator Clean Vertex Group

Subset

Subset is a drop-down menu choose the Subset method.

Quantize

Quantize quantizes the weight paint values. It starts with 4 steps. With a step of 1 you have a single vertex color, no matter how you have painted it before.

Last Operator Quantize

Levels

Adds some offset to the Weight paint, and multiplys it with some gain.

Last Operator Vertex Group Levels

Subset

Subset is a drop-down menu choose the Subset method.

Offset

Here you adjust the offset.

Gain

Here you adjust the gain.

Smooth

Smooths the weight for selected vertices.

Last Operator Smooth Vertex Weights

Subset

Subset is a drop-down menu choose the Subset method.

Limit Total

Limit number of Weights per vertex. The lowest weights gets removed.

This is of interest when you have for example five bones associated with a vertice. But your game engine just allows four ...

Last Operator Limit Number of Weights per Vertex

Subset

Subset is a drop-down menu choose the Subset method.

Limit

Here you adjust how many weights are allowed.

Locks

The locks from the Vertex groups as operators.

Set Attribute

Set values of the active attribute for the selected element. It calls a popup where you can add an attribute. A vertex group index number or a uv map value for example. It depends of the element.

Sort Elements

Sort Elements is a menu with different sorting methods. It allows you to reorder the mesh indices of the selected mesh elements by various methods.

The indices can be turned on in the Overlays menu.

View Z Axis

Sorts along the active view’s Z axis, from farthest to nearest. You can use Reverse if you want it the other way.

View Y Axis

Sorts along the active view’s Y axis, from farthest to nearest. You can use Reverse if you want it the other way.

Cursor Distance

Sorts from nearest to farthest away from the 3D cursor position.

Material

Faces only! Sorts faces by their lowest material index up to highest material index. Order of faces inside each of those material groups remains unchanged.

Note that the Reverse option only reverses the order of the materials**.* And* the order of the faces inside them.

Reverse

Reverses the order of the selected elements.

Last Operator Sort Mesh Elements

Sort Elements always brings up the same last operator. But with a small difference for Randomize and Reverse. Reverse has no checkbox. And Randomize has a Seed checkbox.

Type

This is a drop-down box choose the sort method again.

Seed Edit box (Randomize only)

The seed option allows you to get another randomization – the same seed over the same mesh/set of selected elements will always give the same result!

Subdivide

Subdivide is a menu where you can quickly add and change a subdivision surface modifier with a predefined resolution in a quick way. Especially when you use the hotkey for it. The subdivision surface modifier panel can then as usual be found in the Properties editor in the Modifier tab.

Last Operator Subdivision Set

Show / Hide

The Show/Hide menu is available for all object types and in all modes. It is usually in the object related menu to find. In Object mode it's the Object menu, for a curve object in edit mode it is the Curve menu. It always contains three menu items. Show Hidden, Hide Selected and Hide Unselected.

Hide Unselected

Hides the not selected elements. The selected elements stays visible.

Last Operator Reveal Hidden / Hide Selected

Select

Define if the selected or the unselected elements gets hidden or revealed.

Cleanup

In the Cleanup menu you will find tools to clean up the current geometry.

Delete Loose

Delete loose deletes not connected geometry. Vertices, Edges, and Faces. The tool starts with deleting Vertices and Edges. But you can tick Faces in the Last Operator too, and then it also removes not connected Faces.

Last Operator Delete Loose

Vertices

Delete Vertices.

Decimate Geometry

Decimate Geometry decimates the currently selected geometry. It starts with a Ratio of 1. Which means no decimation. The lower the ratio the more decimation you will get. The Decimate Modifier works with Tris!

Last Operator Decimate Geometry

Ratio

Adjust the strength of decimation.

Degenerate Dissolve

Removes zero size Faces and Edges.

Last Operator Degenerate Dissolve

Merge Distance

Maximum distance between elements to merge.

Make Planar Faces

Make Planar Faces tries to make the selected faces planar. Quads or N-Gons for example can have vertices that are not planar.

Last Operator Make Planar Faces

Factor

Here you adjust how strong the influence should be.

Iterations

Here you adjust how often it should repeat in the try to find a solution.

Split Non-Planar Faces

Split Non Planar Faces splits up non planar Quads and N-Gons to end in planar faces.

Last Operator Split Non-Planar Faces

Max Angle

Limit the action to a maximum angle.

Split Concave Faces

Splits concave faces to make the geometry more stable. This tool is thought for N-Gons.

Fill Holes

Fill holes closes holes in the mesh geometry.

Fill holes can just calculate one face size at one time. So when you have several holes in the mesh, let's say one is a tri, and one is a quad, then you need to calculate twice.

Last Operator Fill Holes

Sides

Define what face size will be filled.

Delete

The smart delete add-on. usually does the delete job already fine. It deletes the selected element(s).

There are sometimes some situations where you need more control over what you want to delete. The tools for this can be found in the Delete menu.

Vertices

Deletes the selected vertices, and all with it connected edges and faces.

Edges

Deletes the selected edges and the connected faces.

Faces

This one works similar to the smart delete. It deletes the selected faces.

Edge Loops

This method works similar to the smart delete tool. It deletes the edge loop. But it selects the faces of the edge ring. And the Last operator offers you the option to split off face corners.

Last Operator Delete Edge Loop

Face Split

Split off face corners to maintain surrounding geometry.

Dissolve

Dissolve operations removes for examples selected vertices, edges and faces. But they are not delete operations. They are union tools.

When you for example choose Delete vertices from the mesh menu, then the involved faces can get deleted too. When you choose Dissolve vertices, then the vertices gets removed, and the faces stays intact. The edges gets unioned.

Dissolve is a union operation.

Dissolve Vertices

Dissolve Vertices dissolves the selected Vertices.

Note that pressing Del in Vertice select mode calls Dissolve Vertices already. It's the same operator. But you don't get the Last operator that way.

Last Operator Dissolve Vertices

Dissolve Edges

Dissolve Edges dissolves the selected Edges.

Note that pressing Del in Edge select mode calls Dissolve Edges already. It's the same operator. But you don't get the Last operator that way.

Last Operator Dissolve Edges

Dissolve Vertices

When the dissolve operation leaves vertices behind, then this vertices will be dissolved too.

Dissolve Faces

Dissolve Faces removes the inlaying edges of the selected faces. This faces becomes one big N-Gon.

Last Operator Dissolve Faces

Dissolve Vertices

When the dissolve operation leaves vertices behind, then this vertices will be dissolved too.

Limited Dissolve

Dissolve selected edges and vertices, limited by the surrounded angles.

Last Operator Limited Dissolve

Max Angle

The angle limit up to which the dissolve happens.

Dissolve Selection

Dissolves the selected geometry.

Last Operator Dissolve Selection

Collapse Edges & Faces

Collapses the selected edges or faces to a vertice at the center of the selection.

Mesh Select Mode

Mesh Select mode is a sub menu Set the current mesh select mode. Its functionality is equal to the mesh select mode buttons in the header. Just that you can't select more than one mode directly here.

This menu just exists to show and to edit the hotkeys. Not to work with it.

Smart Delete

Smart Delete

Smart delete deletes what is selected in an intelligent way. When you for example delete an edge then the edge gets deleted. But it also deletes the vertices connected to this edge. It performs a Dissolve operation under the hood.

There is also a Delete and Dissolve menu in the Mesh menu, choose different methods for deleting if required.

Smart delete is an add-on. And can be deactivated if desired.