How to do this without eyeballing in Maya??

Drawallday

How do I model two cylinders meeting together? I just found out it isn't as easy as it looks.

Drawallday

As one mesh I mean

Daz

Any particular reason why you'd need it to be one contiguous mesh? It's not made that way in real life. A boolean with some tinkering and clean up should work.

Eric Chadwick

From Per128's site, click to get the whole page of tips.

Drawallday

Thanks!!!!!! I am gonna give it a try asap.

Drawallday

Starting from bottom up shows the steps I did. Start with NURBS cylinder, project circle on cylinder, trim, convert to poly, extrude edges and Proxy Subdiv (smooth)

Mark Dygert

And the reason it needs to be one continuous piece is?

(just curious)

PolyPutty

yeah why does it need to be one mesh? it doesn't look like the handle is welded to the frame in the example?

Eric Chadwick

Yeah, I don't think it's one pice. IIRC the ring is usually screwed onto the handle. Some pics.
http://www.bcrgroup.biz/magnifying%20glass%202.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g225/pigopotamus_photos/DSC01247.jpg