CS304 Blender Merge

To merge two objects, you merge the respective vertices of contact. For example, suppose you wanted to connect two spheres so that they translated, rotated, and scaled together as one object. Follow the steps below.

Detailed Steps

• Start up blender and create two separate spheres. I have done this and scaled one a little smaller. Be sure to be in object mode as you create the spheres so you can set different materials for them. Then switch to edit mode and wireframe selected.

• Zoom in and position both spheres so that the two vertices you want to merge are near each other.

• AKEY deselect all vertices, and BKEY select the two you want to merge.

• The following picture illustrates the two vertices selected.

• WKEY to get the SPECIALS menu.

• Select merge.

• Select at center.

• LMB click. You see the two vertices joined.

• Now if you zoom out you see that the two spheres are connected. I switched to object mode and Solid selected. I show a rotation selected.

• And if I rotate, I rotate both as one object.