Hi bardler, thank you for your reply, It is a HP college assignment and they want us to model it as detailed as we can, so modelled pretty much everythin on this object (it's a vintage folding camera), including screw thread and other small bits, this one of of them, it's what allows you to wind up the film roll inside.…
Hi everyone, great thread So i'm having trouble understanding something mentioned in this thread a while back (waay back) its about adding irregular details (edges) to cylinder (6 sided) and have it still subdivide into a "prefect" round cylinder. Here's the image The method of finding the location of the edges im sure is…
@dm3d Ima chime in because you were on the right track from the start, you just didn't make your supporting edgeloop follow the zigzag at the top. I started with a 100sided cylinder because I wanted 5 sides for each slope cut so I would end up with double edgeloops for that crisp cnc look 1 shows the same edgeloop you did,…
@FrankPolygon Hey Frank, thanks for the extensive answer. I'm pretty new to modelling and I have to admit that after reading the answer 5 times or so, I still don't quite understand everything. :) While I have managed to reconstruct something that leads to similar results, it feels like a trial-and-error approach to get…
Hey Frank, thanks for the extensive answer. I'm pretty new to modelling and I have to admit that after reading the answer 5 times or so, I still don't quite understand everything. :) While I have managed to reconstruct something that leads to similar results, it feels like a trial-and-error approach to get there. I have…
Hello All. THANK YOU. I've spent the last two months (?) learning to model. 0 experience in any visual field. Can't even draw. I went through this thread start-to-finish several times, followed all the links that weren't dead. Downloaded the tutorials, made sure I understood each question and the posted solutions. And so I…
@Udjani You're on the right track. Sacboi is right about working through some additional block-outs to analyze the shape. There's a few distinct features that appear to be in conflict: the oblong boss appears to have a fixed width, the pattern draft appears to be relatively uniform and the complex profile appears to have…
Well if you go from a 6-8 sided cylinder to a smooth cylinder on a surface that isn't flat there is always gonna be a tiny bit of weirdness afaik, look at a sort of equivalent real life example: http://www.portlandbolt.com/image/products/full/hex_bolt1.jpg The only problem left in the version respawnrt posted is that he…
Sub-d recover app: www.mariussilaghi.com/products/subd-recovery I've found a maxscript similar behavior, sub-d reverse: *MOD EDIT: download link removed; please do a bit of research what you're posting, subdivision reversion is another paid-for plugin from the same author:…
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1653879#post1653879 Just invert the extrusion into an intrusion, and you have your desired result. I found this in a minute or so. I looked in Perna's google drive collection, then reverse-image searched for the thread link. The general issue Joao is talking about is a…