From the course: Maya 2022 Essential Training

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Welding components

Welding components

- [Instructor] When you combine surfaces in Maya you may need to connect them so that they are actually one single surface. And for that we can use what's called Target Weld. Now, in this case, I have this truck. And I also have this wheel well. And if we zoom in you'll see that the wheel well is not connected to the main body of the truck. Now if I go in to my modeling tool kit, select Faces. You can see if I double click on these faces for the truck the wheel well doesn't select. And that's because there's no connection. It's not all the same surfaces. And the same goes for the wheel well. It's a separate surface. There's no connection between the two. Now if we want to connect these so that they're one we can do what's called a Target Weld. Now we can find that in a couple of places. We can go under Mesh Tools. Target Weld. And we also have it in our modeling tool kit. Right here. So we can target weld either…

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