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title: "Adding Subdivision"
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To add render time Subdivisions to your geometry in Solaris are handled via the <span style="color: #4269b8">**MeshEdit**</span> node.  
  
Create and connect a <span style="color: #4269b8">**MeshEdit**</span> node to your Solaris graph.

![image](media://462acbda-1758-451d-b37b-6997ca6e917f)


Select the Primitive(s) to be subdivided and then <span style="color: #4269b8">**Set / Create **</span>a Subdivision Scheme and select <span style="color: #4269b8">**Catmull Clark**</span>

![image](media://5f2ae960-ea84-4a4e-936d-aafede5b01de)


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<span style="color: #4269b8">**Example**</span>   
Before Subdivision :

![image](media://76e03857-431b-4dbc-8327-9d3041aa1f1b)

  
And, after Subdivision :

![image](media://8f0dc83d-2f5a-4fbb-9244-7a228658a11f)

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