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.
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