Re: Tutorial Preview


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Posted by Evan C on November 16, 1998 at 23:00:17:

In Reply to: Tutorial Preview posted by BrianL on November 16, 1998 at 17:20:26:

: Please check this out and let me know what you think:

: http://massassi.jedinights.com/pipes/perfectpipes.htm

: It's a really cool tutorial if you ask me...

: Brian

No offense to JM(even though he probably deserves a litle,hehe) but that technique seems a bit too difficult. There is a much much easier way. Also, the tutorial was a bit wordy I thought. Too much pointless info.

Anyway, here is the method I've been using for a long time:

Start with your pipe sector. This can be ANY shape you want, not nessecarily a circle, can be a sqaure, triangle, trapezium and so on(any shape in other words)
The shape I am using is a circle.

Now, looking at it from view # 1 click on the end surface and push extrude. You should have a new sector. Click on this and rotate it 15 degrees(this can really be any angle you want but 15 gives a nice clean shape). make sure it is on the z axis(depends on the angle of your pipe. Z-axis makes it go left or right.Other axis's go up and down)
Next, click on the end surface of the origanal sector and extrude that. Take the new sector and rotate that one by NEGATIVE 15 degrees(-15).

You now have a segment of your pipe. Insert a couple more and make your pipe.

ADVANCED INFO

* After the first stage the pipe will have errors in it. You MUST do step 2.
* To resize the curve segment use the JED tool "TRANSLATE"


Not bad for a quick Tutorial eh? :-)

Post replies if you want.

Evan C


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