Blender Loop Cut Straight

After a long time of asking in forums groups.
Blender loop cut straight. This is identical to the edge slide tool. Relax from looptools built in. Alt right click a face in the direction of the loop you d like to select. By default blender snaps the knife to an edge if your mouse cursor is near it.
Doing my own research and a few happy accidents i ve found 5 ways to straighten edges in blender. Allow the cut tool to cut through to obscured faces instead of only the visible ones. Vertex align from vertex tools. Our blender 2 8 absolute beginners course continues and there s video number 17 available now on youtube.
Clicking lmb again confirms and makes the cut at the pre visualized location or clicking rmb forces the cut to exactly 50. First in ctrl r no clicking select the direction of the cut when the loop is highlighted then scroll the wheel up to get multiples then when you have as many as you need left click once and double arrow should appear then you can slide it around when in place left click again done. Draw a continuous line. The tools don t necessarily work the same way as the hot key any longer so it s a decent change from 2 79.
Now the loop cut will behave as expected how it was in blender 2 79. Line up from zaloopok addon. As for why the developers have made it so the user can navigate around the scene while the loop cut tool is active is for simplicity s sake. Once an edge is chosen via lmb you can move the mouse along the edge to determine where the new edge loop will be placed.
In this video you ll learn one of the most important modeling tools available in blender s edit mode loop cut and bevel tools. Constrains the cut to 45 degree increments. In blender you can select face loops when you re in face select mode in edit mode press ctrl tab faces the same way you select edge loops in vertex select or edge select modes. The loop cut tool on the tool bar is designed to be used by beginners.
If you re drawing straight cut lines with the left click and release method you can see the planned location of your new midpoint vertices as green squares. This is a quick way to close the loop you are currently cutting.