How to do this without eyeballing in Maya??

Drawallday · Jan 2008

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

Drawallday · Jan 2008

As one mesh I mean

Daz · Jan 2008

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 · Jan 2008

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

Drawallday · Jan 2008

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

Drawallday · Jan 2008

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 · Jan 2008

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

(just curious)

PolyPutty · Jan 2008

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 · Jan 2008

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

How to do this without eyeballing in Maya??

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