No matter how carefully I model and detach elements I frequently wind up with dozens or hundreds of stray vertices inbetween edges. In Edit Poly/Vertex mode there is a button called ‘Remove Isolated Vertices.’ It doesn’t appear to do anything for this situation. It might remove vertices that are floating and not associated with anything.

So, I go around and remove them one-by-one and takes a LOT of time. I haven’t found a way to do this easily. Any ideas?

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You might want to try this script called Vertex Cleaner, pretty much do what you’ve described as the problem. Hope it helps.

_Revel

3ds Max 2011 x64
Windows 7 Home Premium x64
Core 2 Quad Q8400 2.66GHz
nVidia GeForce GTX 275
8.00 GB RAM

If you continually have this problem then you may want to revisit your workflow and work out why they are being left there.

For example, if you “remove” an Edge it will leave the vertices, if you Ctrl+Click the remove button it will remove the associated vertices as well. Same with Backspace key (Ctrl+Backspace will remove them).
It is always easier to not cause the problem in the first place than to have to try and clean up the model afterwards.

The vertices you highlighted are not isolated - an isolated vertex is one with NO edges attached to it. In that case the “Remove Isolated Vertices” button does function correctly.

Max 4.2 through 2013.
XP-64 (SP2)
NVidia 9800GTX-512 (Driver 266.58).
Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz, 8Gb Ram, DX9.0c.

Revel,

That script is “exactly” what I was looking for. In reading about it I learned that I’m not the only one who has the problem and it did help me to determine why it happens after all these years of frustration. No matter how cleanly and carefully we model, when we do boolean operations and the mesh density is different between objects, vertices are left on edges that are not connected to an intersection. They are just stray verts on miscellaneous edges where the boolean makes the cut. The boolean is trying to retain the shape of the new edge by leaving these but it can cause problems and headaches later when we try to get our mesh back to a clean quad mesh.

So, mystery solved and solution found...Win-Win !

This script works fantastically to remove them.

Thanks,

Rob

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This script is just what I need! I also found one on ScriptSpot called CleanBoolean that should also prove useful.
However, after installing both into my Scripts folder, when I select Rn Script and pick one, nothing happens!

I have the verts selected in poly sub object mode.
I have other scripts in the same folder that I can run.
I am running Max 2011 64 bit on Vista 64. I even tried running Max in administrator mode.
Any suggestions?

3DS Max 2011 64 bit, Rel 13 SP2
Vista 64
AMD Phenom X4 9500 Quad Core 6GB
GeForce GTX 460 2048MB

here some simple ways:

a polyboost function, called ‘by Numeric’
so if your mesh is closed you need just that.

but If the mesh is open:

you can use selections sets:
select boder edges, convert to verts
all vertices selected now, create selection set
open graphite, and use ‘by numeric’ = 2
create selection set
open selection set dialog,
and substract border from ‘by numeric’ selection
apply the selection set

or a small mxs:
open the subobject and