Air vent holes approach

[SonicBlue]

How to make air vent look like its coming out of a flat surface

[2018-05-30_21-53-32][blender_2018-05-30_21-50-20] bse1.blend (689.0 KB) The Isetta engine is on the right, the engine lid (which is the thing you are trying to model) is only on the right only. Attached you can find the model, but it needs some fixing to match the actual shape.

How to make air vent look like its coming out of a flat surface

I’m no Blender expert either, the thing with hard surface modeling is that you can learn from every software, since the basic principles are the same, in most cases there are no magic secret functions. I believe it could have been done with less edge loops using creasing, but I always forgot about that. Anyway, the thing is simple, I’ve started with a cube (in reality I’ve extruded the edges of a plane, but it’s the same if you remove the back and bottom faces), shaping it like this: [Screens…

Not exactly the same shape, but take a look at this thread, the procedure to follow applies to your case too.