making a circle in a box

how do i make a circle in this box? im trying to make a radio and im having trouble making a circle within the box to make a button … thankss http://i483.photobucket.com/albums/rr194/haris9098/button.jpg

You could either move individual vertices around or you could make each button a seperate mesh or object. Good luck!

im sorry im not so good with this … can you help me out a bit more? i mean i tried that but do you think ill need more sub divides?

Haha, sure :wink: No need for more subdivisions, if you ever need more vertices to play with you can just add a loop cut (control+r). These were my 2 suggestions:

  1. With your mouse in the viewport, press control+tab. Here, select vertices. You can now select each vertex (point, 3D pixel), rather than each face. This way you can try to make a circular shape.

  2. Within edit mode press Space, then select Add > Mesh > Cylinder. And there you have a radio button! =)

If you have any more questions feel free to ask. =)

  1. Select the faces forming the rectangle inside which the circle will be (So in your image you should select 4 more faces to make a rectangle.
  2. Delete these faces and select the edges around the hole.
  3. Press ‘shift + s’ -> ‘cursor -> selection’
  4. press ‘e’ -> ‘only edges’ and scale down a bit
  5. Click the ‘To Sphere’ button in the ‘Mesh Tools’ panel (it should be at 100% by default, if it isn’t set it to 100)
  6. scale to the size you want.

thanks alot i got this far by your help … now im stuck again :frowning: i need to make another circle on top of that one and i dont see that many straight Rectangles to make another one… can you guys help me out? i got this far… atlesthttp://i483.photobucket.com/albums/rr194/haris9098/radiobutton2.jpg

If I were you I’d stick to seperate meshes to prevent that. :wink:

I think you have way too many loops in your model. I’d say you should use subsurf and go for something like this instead

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omg!! howd you make it so simple! ill try that right now!! thanks

Morio has the right idea. Just posting so you can have the link to my tutorial - in sig. I cover this kind of modeling in it’s basics.