Simple Shape Not Possible in Blender?

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Hi,

OK…I’m start’n to pull out my hair on this thing! :evilgrin:

Here is the shape I need for my project, but nothing seems to work for me…I simply cannot achieve a smooth round look with the 4 extrudes on the top like that…

Image Sample from Illustrator:
http://www.jmedia.me/test/cylindersample.jpg

I need that exact shape…

If anyone can help, I would be very grateful!

Cheers
Jeremy

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you can start and make a segment with a circle extrude it a little

then you can use spin dupli

hope it helps

just smooth it out and should work
you extrude circle removes some vertex extrude it’s easy to do

salutations

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Ricky,

Are you suggesting that I then lay the duplicates on top of a cylinder, thus making 5 seperate parts?

If so, will subsurf make it smooth without softening the edges?

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One more thing… can Blender import smooth bezier paths/curves from illustrator that I can then extrude without needing to use subsurf? I tried to import a .ai PATH using Import/Paths, but It never works for me…maybe I am not saving the .AI properly?

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You can join the meshes. How much subsurf softens the edges depends, as always, on where you put your edge loops:

cylinder.jpg626×552 93.4 KB

Best wishes,
Matthew

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If you got this far then all you need to do is select the faces of the crenelations and extrude (E) them out.

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Matthew has a great example there. The polyflow is perfect for that in subsurf.

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Thank you - praise from the master is praise indeed!

Best wishes,
Matthew

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Wow…nicely done, Matt!..However, I have no idea what you said about the “edge loops”… I’ll have to do some research on that one.

Thanks for the example…I just hope I can pull it off!

At least now I know it can be done…

Cheers!
Jeremy

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Then let me suggest the tutorial linked to in Richard’s signature a couple of posts back. I learnt a lot from it when I was starting out.

Best wishes,
Matthew

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I found it so very simple so to model. A segmented cylinder could do the job in merely two steps

Video that I made and uploaded on screencast

Snapshot


And yes the blend file is attached here

Attachments

sample.blend (162 KB)

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Tahseen…thank you! Exactly what I was looking for. I learn the best with SEEING and you did just that.

Also, thank you Matt for that link. I have LOTS to learn :slight_smile: