nub mech

[jin'a]

being a complete nu-b to mech modelling i am having a bit of trouble with the basics. Here's a little model I threw together to make the point...how do i smoothe round the circular object (direction of white arrow) without smoothing the corners (seen as point 1) eg I don't want to smooth in the red arrow direction.

[toby]

turn the smoothing threshold down, the field below all the channels in the surface editor. A low setting of about 10 - 20 degrees is all you need for a cylinder's sides to smooth.

I have a simple tutorial on finer points of smoothing:
http://www.tobygaines.com/bevel.html