{"id":287,"date":"2008-12-31T00:01:49","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T08:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lovecraftforest.com\/blog\/?p=287"},"modified":"2023-04-01T16:06:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T16:06:12","slug":"zbrush-mechanical-part-4-rounded-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sculptedmesh.com\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":"Zbrush Mechanical Part 4, Rounded Holes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I needed a hexagonal part with a round hole in the middle. \u00a0 This would seem to be a challenge for ZBrush requiring an outside modeler. \u00a0 However, it is actually pretty easy in ZB if you know primitives and deformers.<\/p>\n

First, we can start with our old friend the cylinder primitive:\"cyl1\"<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Not very hexagonal yet, and too long, but we can fix that. \u00a0We tweak the number of sides to 6 and shorten the z-length in the “initialize” menu:\"hex2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Better, but no hole . . . We can solve that by setting the “inner radius”:\"hexhole3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Nuts, close, but the inside whole isn’t round. \u00a0 I’ll need to fix that up before the boss sees it. \u00a0 I go ahead and make this a poly mesh and then group the inside polygons. \u00a0I also divide the polymesh a few times (well, 3 actually) with the “SMT” option off (so that it doesn’t round off my hexagonal prism). \u00a0Showing just the inside polygons (with display-double on for ease of viewing, I have:<\/p>\n

\"holegroup4\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Now if there was a easy way to round those off, I’d be home free. \u00a0 Hey, what about that “deformations” subpallet?\"defmenu\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Ooo . . . I like that “RFlatten” thing . . . (It’s short for Radial Flatten). \u00a0 A little RFlatten and slight tweak of the size (with just X & Y turned on) and I have a nice round hole. \u00a0\"roundedhole5\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Unhiding my geometry, I’m good to go:\"finishedhex\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Total time to \u00a0model: less than two minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I needed a hexagonal part with a round hole in the middle. \u00a0 This would seem to be a challenge for ZBrush requiring an outside modeler. \u00a0 However, it is actually pretty easy in ZB if you know primitives and deformers. First, we can start with our old friend the cylinder primitive:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Not very hexagonal … Continue reading Zbrush Mechanical Part 4, Rounded Holes<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[3,62],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zbrush","tag-3d-tools","tag-zbrush"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sculptedmesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sculptedmesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sculptedmesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sculptedmesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sculptedmesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sculptedmesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":747,"href":"https:\/\/www.sculptedmesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sculptedmesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sculptedmesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sculptedmesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}