Hi there. I would recommend to work with 1/8 of the mesh. 1. Start with your basic shapes 2. Create seperate mesh that would act as boolean 3. Boolean 4. Rotate the mesh 45 degrees 5. delete 1/8 of the mesh 6. Clean up 7. Rotate back -45 degrees 8. Symmetri and voila. HERE IS THE 1/8th of the mesh cleaned
Yeah, the last place I worked had a really nice script set up for doing that sort of thing, but it sometimes exploded if your curve wasn't rotated just right. You often had to rotate it 90 degrees, do your duplicate-along-spline, then rotate the object back. Man I really don't miss maya.
You can use boolean. Step by step in Blender: Bevel the edges > duplicate the triangle and separate to new obj > origin triangle to corner (use 3d Cursor is ok also) > rotate and scale triangle > solid and finally boolean with cube… Notice here when you rotate, use transform orientations by normal (create new custom if u…
I figured a way round about way of doing it. Rotated the face 45 degrees. Then had an edge loop a bit back, which I flattened(snapped) the vertices, forward, straight along the edges(non distorted edges), towards the rotated ones.
Trev: Suggestion for your tyres. NOTE: I screwed up the patterning so they don't line up right, but the process is sound. Model the tread gash straight across the tyre surface. Just do one section. Looking at some other reference for that tyre model there are 10 harley logos around the edge, making them spaced 36 degrees…