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Blender Add-ons

Slide Relax

Blender 4.0+ Mesh Tool

Overview

Slide Relax is a mesh editing tool that smoothly relaxes and evens out vertex spacing while retaining the overall surface volume and shape during Edit Mode. Excellent for retopology and organic modeling.

UI Location

  • 3D Viewport > Edit Mode > Sidebar (N key) under the Edit tab.

Slide Relax sidebar

Features & Usage

  1. Select vertices, edges, or faces in Edit Mode.
  2. Click Slide Relax in the Sidebar panel.
  3. Adjust Strength, Iterations, and Preserve Boundaries as needed.

Parameters

ParameterDescription
StrengthTangential relaxation amount per pass (0.0 to 1.0)
IterationsNumber of relaxation passes
Preserve BoundariesBlocks inward motion on boundary vertices to avoid outline shrink