{"id":1070,"date":"2021-10-17T21:39:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T12:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zki-design.com\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2026-03-11T20:07:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T11:07:36","slug":"enable-auto-smooth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zki-design.com\/en\/blog\/blender\/enable-auto-smooth\/","title":{"rendered":"Auto Smooth is grayed out \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geometry data such as when importing a model created with another modeling software<strong><span data-color=\"#fffd6b\" style=\"background: linear-gradient(transparent 60%,rgba(255, 253, 107, 0.7) 0);\" class=\"vk_highlighter\">Auto Smooth<\/span><\/strong>is grayed out and cannot be set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"is-style-vk-heading-double_bottomborder_black wp-block-heading\">How to fix\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Open the Geometry Data in the Object Data panel, and the button at the bottom is &quot;<span data-color=\"#fffd6b\" style=\"background: linear-gradient(transparent 60%,rgba(255, 253, 107, 0.7) 0);\" class=\"vk_highlighter\"><strong>Add Custom Split Normals Data<\/strong><\/span>\u201d is displayed.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"405\" height=\"219\" src=\"https:\/\/zki-design.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-43.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1071\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zki-design.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-43.png 405w, https:\/\/zki-design.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-43-300x162.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If this is<span data-color=\"#fffd6b\" style=\"background: linear-gradient(transparent 60%,rgba(255, 253, 107, 0.7) 0);\" class=\"vk_highlighter\"><strong>Clear Custom Split Normals Data<\/strong><\/span>, click Clear Custom Split Normals Data.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check again if Auto Smooth is grayed out. I think it&#039;s fixed.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geometry Data Auto Smoo [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[13,2,12],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-blender","tag-archiviz","tag-blender","tag-modeling"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zki-design.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zki-design.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zki-design.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zki-design.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zki-design.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zki-design.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1073,"href":"https:\/\/zki-design.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions\/1073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zki-design.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zki-design.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zki-design.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zki-design.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}