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how to add a loop cut in blender
HeyBraza points at the ctrl+r loop-cut tool and the scroll-to-add-cuts trick so your loops land where you want them.
loop cuts add rings of edges around a model so you have more geometry to shape or to hold a subdivision's edges sharp. the tool is a shortcut most beginners never find, and it behaves differently on the first and second click.
short answer
in edit mode press ctrl+r and hover over the mesh - a yellow loop preview appears. scroll the mouse wheel to set how many cuts, left-click to confirm, then move the mouse to slide the loop and click to place it (right-click or esc drops it dead centre instead of sliding).
or do it yourself
- 1enter edit mode with tab.
- 2press ctrl+r and move the mouse over the mesh - a yellow loop previews along the faces you hover.
- 3scroll the mouse wheel up to add more parallel cuts, then left-click once to confirm that number.
- 4now move the mouse to slide the loop along, and left-click to drop it where you want it.
- 5prefer it exactly in the middle? after the first click, right-click (or press esc) - that places the loop centred without sliding.
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downloadcommon questions
why won't the loop cut go all the way around my model?
loop cut follows an unbroken ring of four-sided faces. it stops wherever it hits a triangle or an n-gon, so clean those up or the loop dead-ends.
how do i add several loop cuts at once?
after pressing ctrl+r, scroll the mouse wheel up before you click - each scroll adds another evenly-spaced cut across the whole ring.
what does the second click do in loop cut?
ctrl+r is 'loop cut and slide'. the first click sets the cut, the second slides it along the surface. right-click after the first click keeps it centred and skips the slide.
