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Smoothing makes a mess of faces - changrilla - 08-01-2026
Hi. I'm hoping there's a solution to this. I want to smooth the edge contours of a guitar body but it makes a bit of a mess of the faces.
Edges selected: https://mgcsoft.com/Wings/EdgeFacesSelected.jpg
After smoothing: https://mgcsoft.com/Wings/EdgeFacesSmoothed.jpg
Any way of avoiding the unwanted edges. Cheers, Gordon
RE: Smoothing makes a mess of faces - kenmo - 08-02-2026
Looking at your model it appears to be a topology issue. Too many tris and n-gons. Smoothing, sub-d, etc usually require good edge loops and quad topology. Edge loops is hard to obtain with tris or n-gons.
That is my experience from using Blender, Hexagon 3D and Silo3D.
I have not used Wings3D for several years but I do frequently drop by to see if there are any updates or improvements in Wings3D which wetted my interest in 3D modeling.