Can anyone help me to make a realistic model of calculator

It’s very difficult :pensive: for me for the first time because my senses are not working well and it is still confusing because it is my first paid project

What!!! someone is paying you to do a job you could not do?

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Well… it’s a cube rescaled to be more flat and other cubes to build the keyboard… at least the numbers, a point, the numeric operation symbols, properly C, AC, MS, MR… some beveling… and…

What help do you expect exactly ?? To be honest if you do not know how to start this then you may have to view some more beginner tutorials. Even tutorials for other apps does help to get some general ideas about modelling. Because blender is also just a tool.

The way to think how a model is build is the same when “drawing” for example calculator with pencil and ruler. Basic shapes forming something new. Or even when buildign it in real for example a chair out of wood… mostly four feet something to sit one and the back rest. The wood does not magically grew on trees (well somekind of) in the wanted form and someone only has to pluck it.

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Is that really surprising? Good for him. :smiley:

@funman What’s surprising for me is a request for help with modeling without any sketch or reference images or photos. There are hundreds of thousands if not millions of types of calculators. Maybe that is why it’s hard - because you have no idea, what you are supposed to be modeling?

That’s a calculator:

And there is this teddy bear calculator:

And here is a simple calculator:

And there is this fish shaped calculator:

And that’s also apparently a thing:

Magic-Box-Calculator-One-Pen-Included

Do you see where I am going?.. What calculator?

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But not for the client that will have to pay for it. :crazy_face:

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Please analyze the product for modeling and decide which parts need details and omit.

Modelling starts at a level where you can decide on a rough size and shape.

fsdfsd.blend (1.2 MB)

The modeling of buttons and bodies is produced using modifiers such as boolean and bevel.
Modifications can be made at any time by maintaining modifiers and modeling them.

However, in some cases, you need to apply a modifier and change it to a mesh.
In this case, you can create and use a backup.

After you complete the modeling, you can proceed to the next process.

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Oh yesss!!! :joy::joy::joy::sob::sob::sob::sob:

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All jokes aside, you’re defrauding whoever is paying you by pretending to be able to do the work you’re getting paid for. I would highly recommend not doing this ever again. You can get into pretty serious trouble this way, ranging from getting fired to getting blacklisted and never having a job again. And, if you really anger someone, you could end up in court. No amount of money you’re getting by lying is worth the potential consequences

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I don’t recall ever selling my services to client, which required using software I had no basic working knowledge of, and then asked the internet to do the work for me.

This is definitely a first.

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On the other hand, as far as fraud goes, telling someone you can make a 3d model of a calculator might not be the worst. This often happens on far larger scale. Even with bigger companies when a manager lacking technical skills promises clients something his team is not prepared to do. It’s not great at all, but not absolutely terrible either. Modelling a realistic calculator is not that difficult. It’s still possible to recover. Should you ever do this again?.. :smiley: Probably not.

@funman if you specify what exactly you want to do and provide some reference, you might still get some more help no matter how ridiculous this situation is.

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I can relate. :joy: :joy: There are managers like this.

All you look like its easy for you to do a calculator.
Now, model and rig this for me:


or

Jokes apart, are we all so old that have forgot our first payed job? Thinking that you knew how to do something and confronting reality before spending some sleepless nights with the fear of failing and bearing a curse for that?

My first paid job was an illustrated tryptic for a company, me a sucessful high school guy, popular at drawing stylized girls and naked sports cars, still remember having a bad time drawing an office filled of people doing a lot of different things at any pose imaginable.
A nightmare for few pennies.
My client far from anger, told me that i could do it much better, payed me anyway, and encouraged me to carry on (I was 16 after all).

At least now there is the internet to look for some advice.

My best wishes for all of you, young and old.

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There’s a big difference between being underqualified for a job or having knowledge gaps and pretending to do something you can’t. The former is a learning experience. The latter gets you fired. I’ve seen it many times

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Learning to know what you can´t do and to evaluate a job before accept is also learning experience.
I don´t know the background, i just ask to not discourage a noob.

And that’s why I wasn’t arrested for that time I tried open heart surgery.

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You opened my mind!
Now I understand why some studios require two degrees, a doctorate, five years of experience and a stunning portfolio for a junior position for cleaning low poly assets.

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Now you understand.

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