Modeling a soap holder

This modeling tutorial for beginners walks through the creation of a metal bathroom soap holder. It helps to demonstrate how to effectively use the polygon modeling tools for those who want to become more familiar with them. This tutorial also shows how to achieve a model from multiple directions.
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Changing an object’s local coordinate system orientation (6.0)

This is a tutorial that deals with changing the local coordinate space of an object to better help deal with texture placement. Projected textures (planar, cylindrical, etc.) are applied relative to the local Z axis of an object and something this isn't the optimal way of setting a material onto an object. This tutorial discusses a couple of ways of dealing with this.
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