Mini Tutorial for Blender
Using Spin & SpinDup
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This little tutorial is more of a 'Tips and Tricks' lesson on my
favorite mesh functions 'Spin' and 'Spin Duplicate'. In 10 steps we will create a reusable
object that is known as a 'hex head nut cap' that i saw on my skateboard wheel. |
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STEP 1 |
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Add a Mesh
>> Circle in side view, select 3/4 of the verts and delete them with
the [XKEY] and click Vertices. |
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STEP 2 |
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Resize the
remaining verts and move them up and to the left with the [SKEY] and [GKEY]. |
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STEP 3 |
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Select the
upper right vert and extrude it once to the right and one more time down. |
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STEP 4 |
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Go into front
view and with all verts selected do the 'Spin' command with the values set in the
Edit Window as seen in this image. It is important that the 3D cursor stay on the object
center. |
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STEP 5 |
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This is what
you get so far as seen in Side and Front views. |
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STEP 6 |
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Move around a
little in Trackball mode so you can select just the 2 verts that i have in this image and
make an edge between them with the [FKEY]. |
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STEP 7 |
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Select the 7
verts as seen in this image and make faces out of hem with [SHIFT+FKEY]. |
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STEP 8 |
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Select just
the same 2 verts as i did in STEP 6 then go to side view and extrude them back with the
[EKEY]. |
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STEP 9 |
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In Front View
select all verts and do the function 'Spin Dup' with the values set to the ones
in this image. Just like in STEP 4 you must make sure to leave the 3D cursor at the object
center. You need to select all verts and 'Remove Doubles' with [WKEY_4KEY_ENTER]
or click the button Remove Doubles in Edit Window before you render or you may
see a seam. Also is good idea to render with the 'Automatic Smooth' option set on
this mesh which is now not a CKEY feature any more (Thanks TON !). |
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LAYER 10 |
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Now you have
the tiny little mechanical object, i don't really know the name but i call it a 'hex head
nut cap'. Save this as an object file because you can import it into another file using
[SHIFT+F1] and us it in a 'Duplivert' function to create an array of them like
caps to rivets or something similar. I
HOPE YOU ENJOY MY TIPS AND TRICKS, i will be happy to make more if you like me to.
Gene Ruffalo
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