well i managed to get some parts of the mesh deleted late
yesterday evening.  of course, you know how that goes...
it might not work again today.  i'm gonna see if i can repeat
the process at lunchtime.  i won't swear to it, but i think the
key was using that lil lightning tool, which is a delete faces
tool, along with the red-lined selection tool.  i'm sorta thinking
the punch tool is for csg and the other is for meshes.

thanks to everyone for helping.

and mahalis:  i don't have any idea what an issiehugger is.  i
was just making a joke in reference to some humorous threads
going on at the comp.graphics.rendering.raytracing group.  and
thats using a very loose definition of "humorous".   ;-)

miker


"MR" <a### [at] bnet> wrote in message news:3bc2efae$1@news.povray.org...
> hello,
>
> could somebody please give me a bit of insight into editting meshes in
> amapi?  i've looked at the vertex selection tool, the filet tool, the
> ungroup feature, the delete face feature, and i can't get the job done.
> i've got one
> large mesh that i need to break up into sections.  i could accomplish this
> by progressively deleting large sections of the mesh in copies of the
> original, but i don't know how to do it.  i'm using the 4.15 freebie
> version.
>
> i've got one medium-sized issiehugger that matt giwer gave me in the
> c.g.r.r. group that i'm willing to trade for this information.
>
> thank you, miker
>
>
>

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