How To Use Blender Knife Tool

You can also find the knife tool in the left side toolbar.
How to use blender knife tool. The knife project tool is a really useful but lesser known tool in blender. This feature is accessible with the knife by pressing k. Click on one or more points to create a new vertex at this location and blender will automatically create edges between each of them. To use the knife tool in blender press tab to go into edit mode then press k on your keyboard. You can draw connected straight lines by clicking lmb marked with small green squares.
Red squares are already defined cuts. The knife is one of blender s modal tools meaning that once you press k you re in a knife mini mode. The knife project tool is handy when you need to cut complex shapes like text out of a curved surface. Jan van den hemel writes. You can make cuts other than loop cuts in blender.
Now enter edit mode and press knife project found in the toolbar. Surrounding red squares mean that there is a cut already in that position so no additional. By jan van den hemel on march 10 2020 videotutorials. It lets you cut things out of surfaces according to the angle you are viewing them from. With the knife activated have a look in the header region of the 3d view and notice the helpful tips.
This one minute video shows you how to use it to your advantage. Blender is open source software this beginners tutorial shows how to use the new knife tool to cut mesh faces edges and add vertex plus bonus tips. Daily blender tip how to use knife project 2.