How Do You Make A Hole?
kms2709
Join Date: 2002-12-14 Member: 10784Members
Join Date: 2002-12-14 Member: 10784Members
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Oh, you want to make a hole? Well, what kind of hole do you want? A circular one? There's no getting around having to create faces. But you can shorten the amount of work you have to do using the extrude tool.
as for making a "hole", i suggest you learn learning poly by poly modelling, box modelling wont get you far, really.
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i'm assuming you meant you want to create a circular ring shape, meaning you don't have to try and place the vertices in a circle, which will result in a circle that isn't a circle. i'll try and explain this simply.
to create a ring shape:
-click 'cylinder' tool.
-change "Stacks" to 1 (unless you are going to do some tapering)
-change "Slices" to 6, 8 or 12, depending on how high-poly you want it to be.
-click and drag one cylinder
-click 'select' tool
-using "faces" and "by vertex" options, click and drag over whole cylinder (or use 'Edit'->'Select All' from menus)
-from menus 'Edit'->'Duplicate'
-click 'scale' tool
-set x, y and z to 1.10 (scales the cylinder uniformly in all directions- means that the second cylinder will be longer that the first one, but that can be fixed using Select (vertices) and alignment tools)
-click 'scale' once or twice, depending on how thick you want the ring to be
-click 'select' tool again, and click anywhere in the viewport, to deselect the second cylinder
-using the 'select' tool (same options) select the inside cylinder (remember, hold shift and right-click drag to deselect)
-once you have the inside cylinder (and ONLY the inside cylinder) selected, go to your menus - 'Face'->'Reverse Vertex Order' (this creates the inside of your ring)
now you have the inside and outside of a hollow cylinder- a ring, if you like. to seal the ends you have to create the faces manually. working in the viewport that shows two circles (one inside the other, unless you have rotated at all this will be the 'Top') just pick a spot and work in once direction. make sure you have 'show backfaces' (right-click menu) unchecked in your 3d viewport, so you can make sure the faces are facing the right direction.
if you want the faces to face 'towards' you then click the vertexes in an anti-clockwise direction. when you have done one side, use the right click->projection menu to change ends (Top to Bottom, Left to Right etc.)
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np! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> glad to help
it does you just dont see it, thats the point
yep your wrong. just trust me it works
it works for me
i think i just forgot to say, it has to be an OPEN cylinder
ok here you go. you make a open cylinder, reverse vertex order, then duplicate the cylender, and reverse vertex order again, then hit extrude and finnally scale it. regroup it and then it works. or you could weld the verticies together. too much trouble i think