How to chamfer this

TicoTaco

Hey everyone, I have always been stuck with the problem of not being able to chamfer shapes like this.



Any ideas/tips?

Left geo is messed up chamfer, right geo is base .

MadnessImport

Remove the edge making up the two triangles?

Drew++

Hope this helps!

TicoTaco

Drew++ wrote: »

Hope this helps!

Beautiful! Thankyou so much.
Now, something a bit more intrusive. This is my final chamfer problem.

Drew++

The problem you're running into is happening because you are trying to chamfer poles, that's where more than 4 edges connect together.
3DS Max likes to chamfer loops, with only 4 edges or less. So you have to take steps.

TicoTaco

So simple. Thankyou very much!

Computron

Is there any software that intuitively chamfers any kind of loop into quads even if it has poles?

Drew++

Computron wrote: »

Is there any software that intuitively chamfers any kind of loop into quads even if it has poles?

I use Modo to model and it works fine. It has that "Quad Chamfer" type of chamfer though.

obliviboy

Computron wrote: »

Is there any software that intuitively chamfers any kind of loop into quads even if it has poles?

Yeah I made a quad chamfer tool for 3ds max http://www.mariussilaghi.com/qchamfer.htm

Computron

obliviboy wrote: »

Yeah I made a quad chamfer tool for 3ds max http://www.mariussilaghi.com/qchamfer.htm

Yea, I have seen your stuff before. I got a question; Does it fit into the modeling workflow well? can you undo the whole operation, or does undo only undo parts of it at a time? are there fast live-previews for the sliders? Does it break any compatibility with anything?

WarrenM

I have the Quad Chamfer script and while I like it a lot, one irritation is that it seems to want a single Edit Poly on the top of the stack or it refuses to work. That gets in the way sometimes. You can't have, say, your "Cube" modifier as the base of your object with an Edit Poly above that and apply a Quad Chamfer - it'll just refuse to do it. You have to collapse to an Edit Poly object first.

That said, everything else you mentioned is handled. You can undo, it fits into the workflow like any other modifier, and it does have a good live preview.

Pedro Amorim

Drew++ wrote: »

I use Modo to model and it works fine. It has that "Quad Chamfer" type of chamfer though.

amen brother!

Computron

WarrenMarshall wrote: »

it fits into the workflow like any other modifier

So its more like a modifier? Like the Chamfer modifier rather than the edit poly tool?

Pedro Amorim wrote: »

amen brother!

I want to go to modo, are there any other cool tools for sub-d?

If there were some awesome video series like an Eat3d Guide to Modo, it be using it in no time flat. Anything you can suggest Pedro?