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SECTION 2 - Modeling and Detail Editor


41] Receiver, a Smoothing tool example, By Gabriele Scibilia.

        This uses Imagine v4.0 Smoothing tool
feature, it is based upon a Lightwave Metaform tutorial by James Trew.

        In the Detail Editor:

- Add axis at 0, 0, 0. - Pick select, Lock to grid (grid size is 20 units), Add lines. - Click left mouse button to the following coordinates: 0, 0, -40; -20, 0, -40; -60, 0, -20; -80, 0, -40; -100, 0, -40; -100, 0, 0; -60, 0, 60; 0, 0, 60. - Enter Mold requestor, Sweep: sweep angle 360, 8 sections. - Copy and Paste object. - Transformation, position the new object to 460, 0, 0. - Transformation, align the new object to 12, 0, 90. - Pick the original object and align to -12, 0, 90.

Now we model the handle:

- Add axis at 200, -25, 50. - Pick select, Lock to grid, Add lines to: 80, -25, 0; 40, -25, 60; 180, -25, 80; 300, -25, 80; 420, -25, 60; 380, -25, 0; 280, -25, 20; 200, -25, 20; 80, -25, 0. - Enter Pick edges method. - Pick the upper 3 edges (multipick), Set edge line. - Pick the remaining edges, Fill to edge line. - Pick object method. - Extrude the shape 50 units. - Pick all faces, Fracture. - Pick object, multipick all objects, Slice. - Delete the intersecting resulting objects. - Join and Merge all objs. - Pick all faces, Fracture, Smoothing tool, smoothing factor to 10. ------------------------------ ... Please Return to News ... ... Please Return to Index ... ------------------------------