How do I bend a cylinder?

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How do I smoothly bend a cylinder mesh to fit a certain contour?

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you need to subdivide it along axis of bend

happy bl

3

What about a nubis curve or path?

4

same thing
you cannot bend an edge it has to be subdivided !

happy bl

5

Can you recommend a video tutorial demonstrating this?

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Here is a video for you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4DbjT0ZRdk

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Hi

You can also convert Verties - Your contour to a Curve make the cylinder and Convert it back to a Mesh…:slight_smile:

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Tai

8

Two crazy possibilities:

The Lattice object, as a parent.

The “cylinder” is actually a Bezier Curve, with a profile that makes it look like a cylinder.