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Do you mean as an image?

@@ArtisansofVaul Yes. an images of a petrographic thin-section.--this video prompted the thought; I think I remember a previous vid where you imported an image and transformed it into stl? Def will peruse my saved videos!

Totally!

Exactly why I was so excited to find this 😁

Yeah, its a bit of a hidden gem!

Thats a lot of faces, especially for some computers. I would try a decimate modifier on it (depending on the model you can drop the ratio by a lot) but it might take a bit to do the calculations. Then it should be easier (though you may drop a little detail so you will need to balance that)

@@ArtisansofVaul Yes but decimate also takes long and balancing takes ... forever. ATM I try to isolate the working area with knife/bisect +fill, working in place and then later joint the meshes with boolean. But it's hard. The problem with all this blender low poly modeling tricks is (as good as they are) - they don't work with high poly STL meshes with fancy detailed or rough surfaces. But as you said, decimate hard is a good idea.

@Fahnder99 if decimation is taking that long it may be more a limitation of your computer/hardware. That's a tricky limitation to do much about but it seems to imply that you probably need to take that decimation time to make the mesh workable for your computer.

What does Maya do for this thats better out of interest?

@@ArtisansofVaul you have a manipulator for the bend deformer in your scene from where you can control the bending, the high and low bounds, you can move the bend around in the scene, you can attach the bend to multiple objects or groups at the same time

You can pause and flip it. You can also do a separate scan and the software will combine the scans together.

I'm not sure, I've never seen that. Are you sure the mesh hadn't been duplicated at some earlier stage?

@@ArtisansofVaul No duplicates, just imported followed the steps and when I began to pose I had an extra leg instead of posed movements?

@@Jonboywonder Hmm.... Not sure. I might need to have a look at the file...

And thats exactly the response I hope for 😁😁😁

Cheers Kainv. I totally agree, they make a huge difference.

Round inset

I haven't tried the loop copier yet. I love the mesh copier tool though!

@@ArtisansofVaul Yeah it is a nice one. I think I asked a while ago on an old tutorial if you ever made one for mesh copier like you said you would.

@@ArtisansofVaul opps never mind, it was the mesh copier video I watched asking about grid modeler. Ha. I need sleep.

@@RoseKindred Haha. I know that feeling! 😅

Is that an addon?

@@ArtisansofVaul Yes, it's available on Blender Market for 12$. It's like the spin tool and the shear tool together, but much better. The selection process is a little bit tedious. You have to select the face, then select the edge you want to spin around. Arrows appear and you can select the direction you want to spin around and if you want to add one segment for a sharp edge (shear) or up to 16 to get a rounded angle. Aaand... You make it destructive with space. 😁😎

@@juliaalder2007 I'll have to check that out.

Have you got the latest version of Machin3 Tools and the latest version of Blender installed?

For this tool you don't need a vertex group, that's what is great. Just select what you want to bend and use the tool (I was going through it fast as its a pain and only needed with blender without the addon)

Sorry, I didn't quite understand that?

@@ArtisansofVaul can you get it do do exact 3mm radius for exactly or is it just drag and it looks about right

@@deaultusername There is probably a calculation you could do but if the object isn't really complicated for an exact measurement like that I would probably use the spin tool. I have a couple of videos on that.

My pleasure and glad its going to be useful! 😁

😁 Thanks

Agreed, that would be really helpful and a time saver for sure.

It's really useful when you want to preserve scale in a non destructive way. You can always scale everything together in edit mode, this way you avoid non uniform scale problems 😊

Auto Apply Transform Add-On For Blender 2.8 by Arsides 3DArs (Gumroad - Free). It still works in 4.1. Location rotation and scale each have checkboxes. When enabled its like nothing ever happened. Every now and then i need to batch a bunch of stuff and its handy for that. So far i havent forgotten to turn it off for fear of getting fk'd on my rotation location

@fergadelics oh awesome! Well done and thanks for letting everyone know 😁👌🏼

And those check boxes are in the N-Panel. Otherwise I think it would be too dangerous

I haven't used this with shape keys as an animation... does the flexing look "right" using shape keys and keep the circular type motion?

@@ArtisansofVaul . The shape keys animation basically replays using the tool. The C key is crucial. Have you covered the grid modeler? KushiroTools dovetail nicely with Machin3, HOps... QOL for hard surface.

@fergadelics I haven't had a chance to do a video on grid modeller yet. It's on the lost of things to do. I was under the impression the shape key just translated the vertices from point to point by a straight line, not actually replay the movement of the tool...

@@ArtisansofVaul whoops. I was just doing gentle corrections with my stuff and the only extreme bends were with elongated cubes. With non squared shapes and cylinders it budges on the bend and non of the modes make a difference. So I’ve been telling lies.

Thats odd, that really shouldn't happen. Can you check you aren't in Solid Display for the viewport shading and not the Material Preview or Rendered Display?

Thanks so much! All the best with the social media side of things. I know Im quite far from having it perfect myself but its a nice way to add another element to the hobby as well and find like minded people 😁

I havent found one unfortunately, which is a real shame.

Only if you don't know what you're doing with it 🤦‍♂

Thanks so much 😁

UV's/Ngons arent really a concern for me as I design for 3D printing but good tip.

My pleasure 😁

The baking saves the animation, not the specific positions. For that you need to get it to the position you want and ctrl+a ---> All Transformations (or Object ---> Rigid Body ---> Apply Transformations. I hope that helps.

Im not quite sure what you mean but I think you might need the realise instances node at the end.

Ive got a video that covers the setup and some other things here 😁: ua-cam.com/video/orqt8Fw7q8o/v-deo.html

@@ArtisansofVaul Ah, thank you, love watching your videos just to see things get made but thinking about starting to try to follow along a little too :P

😁 I'll get thinking of some other things we can do.

So in theory yes, youd want quads and quad remesher would do a lot to help with that. Unfortunately STLs come in a triangulated mesh because of how they work/function. This is mostly for reposing for 3D printing so triangles dont matter (in fact the mesh will be turned into triangles regardless for 3D printing) but for full animation quads would be better. And in that instance you would probably want to do a full rig.

Unfortunately Im probably not the best to answer that as I focus on design for 3D printing, not UV/rendering.

@@ArtisansofVaul No problem, I asked the question here and there and got a few answers. Thanks for your message

Thanks so much!

Cheers Mr Grizzle

😁👍🏻

Haha. It isn't but Im going to have to look this person up!

Very true. It also deals with Geometry Node tools and Geometry Node setups differently. I have a video covering those changes here: ua-cam.com/video/Byp1dC0dRPo/v-deo.htmlsi=PBY9-gl8yUb9Zlqx

Thats a good idea. I probably would set it up and do it in the same way I create a banner here: ua-cam.com/video/tcByBUJXqqc/v-deo.html

@@ArtisansofVaul I'll give the banner vid a look-see. The way I've been trying is making the scroll in planes on x/z, but when I try to solidify or extrude on y, it all goes to hell! 😭

@@nacidocoqui So that can be an issue. That video mostly focuses on some good ways of getting the look for flowing cloth. You need to not create too many crazy overlaps and then the solidifying should be fine.

You're very welcome!

For what I do Blender is perfect. I would probably have missed out learning Sketchup but I don't really regret it as I learnt a lot there that I then applied to Blender. Though for other people (depending on what you want to design) Plasticity could be perfect.

@@ArtisansofVaul Thanks ... I just want to learn to create things for 3d printing

@@hobonickel840 Well Plasticity used to have a free trial so you could see how that is. Blender is free but I find there are addons that are paid for that will make things much faster (but that should still work out cheaper than one year of Plasticity unless you buy a LOT of them).

@@ArtisansofVaul I really appreciate the feedback. I'll look at those. I had downloaded Autodesk360 to see what all the fuss was about. Um yeah, who needs aliens!?!

I'm not sure if that would work as the extrusions would interact from the close vertices surrounding the face. I could be wrong though.

Oh nice idea. But won't that require counting all the scales? I wonder if there is a way to have it calculate the number of mesh islands there are... I'll have to check out how this works out.

I don't think I explained that very clearly in the video. You can do it that way but if you do then you will end up with a subdivided shape on each of the scales that remain meaning that you then can not smooth/round the corners in the later stages. If you don't mind that then yes that would work.

Thank so much for watching and commenting. :) Its my pleasure.