Tutorials: Modeling a Metal Nut object

Comments

1. MrBill September 17, 2011 at 2:16 am

   Looks like part 2 movie is a duplicate of part 1. Didn’t watch all the way through so excuse me if I’m wrong.

2. Chris Tyler September 17, 2011 at 2:19 am

   Thanks, I’ve fixed that.

   Chris

3. Angus Hume April 23, 2012 at 10:10 am

   At the point where you use dissolve on the unwanted polys it is removing too much for me. I end up with just the outer vertices and 1 single poly (one of the subd polys, not the whole face). I tried again with just a single item and it does the same thing every time. I’m using same steps and it looks just like what you have selection wise until I run the dissolve.

4. Chris Tyler April 23, 2012 at 3:51 pm

   Could you send me the object you’re working on just before the dissolve?

5. rskover December 5, 2012 at 8:36 pm

   I’m having a similar problem as the previous comment. I’ve tried the tutorial three times and I can’t get past the step where you dissolve the inner edges. When I do that I end up with a polygon in each of the three shape left over. I can’t seem to delete them. The appearance of the images on the screen is different also- the shapes are no longer filled.

6. Chris Tyler December 5, 2012 at 8:40 pm

   It looks like a bug crept into one of the updates after the 7.0 release which is causing a problem at this point. It can be worked around easily though. Instead of selecting all the internal edges and dissolving, in Face mode select half the polygon, then dissolve those. Then, select the other polygons and dissolve those. You’ll be left with an edge loop down the middle. This can now be dissolved so you have a single ngon.

7. rskover December 7, 2012 at 7:17 pm

   Thanks Chris, it worked perfectly!

8. peter rooney July 9, 2013 at 11:03 am

   I’d love to see the inner thread modeled 🙂 I expect it would be an offset lathe