Welding Tutorial for Nascar Heat Tracks in 3D Studio Max

Tutorial By: Bobby (bmowl)

Seting 3D Snap Toggle.
Step #1 - Click the 3D Snap Button.
Step #2 - Select Vertex.



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Turning your plane into editable mesh (straight-away).
Step #3 - Click Modifiers tab.
Step #4 - Click Edit Mesh button.



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Attaching your plane (corner).
Step #5 - Click Attach List Button.
Step #6 - Attach corner.
Step #7 - Click Attach Button.




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Welding your planes.
Step #8 - Click vertex button (sub-object).




Step #9 - Select Weld/Break. (Right click on your viewpoints - exsample: left/right/front/perspective.)
Step #10 - Click Drag Vertices to Weld Target.



Step #11 - Drag one vertex to another vertex to weld it (shown below):



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Finished Project.
If all is well and you followed my directions you should have something that looks like:



End of tutorial, goodjob!