How to create complex panel lines in Blender 

Always nice to discover a new Blender RU-vidr, one who uses Hopscutter no less! Thank you for sharing your process.

What I like about 3d printing and blender is that I don't need so much a good topology. Its really forgiving.

I'm a huge Hopscutter fan. And this was a great tutorial using it. Thank you👍

Really do love your teaching style! Thanks a ton for doing these fantastic tutorials!

Very helpful video, thank you very much! Your style is entertaining, educational and very dynamic, it really shows your mastery of Blender & 3d modelling.

great approach showing whoops and thus why you can avoid the misstep. That makes your channel the stand out. You explain the why you're doing it this way forethought that displays your professionalism! I would also suggest noting that if you realize that you stepped in it and have gone on making enough changes you realistically can't back yourself out of it, how to fix (I would assume dissolving verts here though that's time consuming-unless you have something fancier that comes to mind)

Just brilliant! Another great technique. Thank you! Dg

Another fantastic lesson! I really like how you show how things can go wrong and then how to fix those issues. That really helps me understand things better. Thank you.

Brilliant! Future proofing designs is so handy. Could you then wrap/curve this to a round surface?

cheers mate! many thanks for another vid tutorial!!

Mate keep doing!great video tut, as Blender secrets,

If my door hole (stop it) is oriented on the X axis, but I want to scale the wall on the Y, how does one stop the door hole from distorting along the Y axis?

What if you want to cut a curved surface (like a mask), but do not want to cut fully through the object. I want the cut at a consistent depth across the surface. (is there a project curves/knife cut function that works similar?)

amazing

Good info. Thanks!

love this!! thank you!!

I beg to differ. The fastest, easiest way to make panel lines in blender is to import the fbx from ZBrush after you did it there. Just saying. Including remeshing it. There's just not the topology fubar'ing that happen's in Blender, in ZBrush, unless MAYBE if you Stash the model with Meshmachine, and hope it helps resolve all the edgeflow... which given what mx2 does in his topology studies, sure makes me think not. ...And it makes CREAMY smooth bools, I'm quite impressed honestly... I haven't done any Hard Surface in ZBrush because I was just sculpting Bare Naked Ladies for a loooong time (not the "me love you long time" way either, I don't like my private lessons to give me some STI as a parting gift!) Now I like mechs and I go back and forth doing or fixing different things between ZBrush and Blender with HOps, Boxcutter, Machin3, Meshmachine, and Mira, not to mention all the addons that come with Blender now like LoopTools. Blender is only number 2 in being so opaque to learn to HoudiniFX because it was made by programmers for programmers is worse... but no worries, Blender is trying to become Houdini, look at their Geometry Spreadsheet. Not for nothing, but I don't want to hear SOPS, HOPS and VEX ever again! VOPS too!

awsome work

Is that quad sphere in the mesh menu from a 3rd party addon?

Doesn't really work for complex meshes like vehicle fuselage.

Thanks!

Thanks, Great Video!

help when i press ctrl - it zooms out

I think you have some kind of an addon that gives you this "vertex mode" when you press tab. You mention it like its a standard thing though. Without the addon.. whatever it is.. tab just goes to edit mode and there you press 1, 2, or 3 to get the various modes. Maybe mention you use paid addons from the start so newer Blender users know your options are not standard.

my boolean looks terrible when trying this method. i checked normals, scale, and double verts. not sure what the issue is. i assume its because there isnt enough geo but yours have practically no geo and it still worked 😂 edit: so i figured out its the boolean slice on the cutter thats causing it. for whatever reason, after applying the solidify modifer, it leaves the cubes i scales up, hollow, so when i cut into then they have thickness to them with a hollow bit inside 😂 i think my hardops is just spazzing out though because thats not how solidify works. well it is how it works, but it shouldnt work like that haha.

Got a question: how do you design your models? I'm struggling with the design principles to get an appealing shape and silhouette for my models.

I just discovered your channel today, but I think you may be one of the best Blender tutors out there.

Great stuff! Is there a difference between Ctrl+, applying a Boolean union via the modifier tab or Q>Booleans>union in hardops or all they all achieving the same thing? In your normal workflow, do you tend to favour any one of those methods and if so, why? Learning so much from these vids and are a genuine highlight of the week, thanks again!

You can also just paint it in and you end up saving on resources

I have the perfect thickness, thanks.😅

When applying this first time, it worked with some relatively okay results. Upon trying to apply it the second time after messing with solidify some, once applying the difference boolean, both the cube and modified circle disappear entirely from the view port in all views. What's going on here?

it doesn't work when i cut when i press ctrl - it zooms out

good..+1

Great lesson, thanks for the useful tip!

great vid, completely understand what I was doing wrong on my last base set. thanks

Great! Showing mistakes which can happen and how to solve them is always great and helpful thinking!

Re-watching to refresh. You library of lessons is so helpful for the community!

Very useful to me thanks! Subscribed

Are you able to add a bevel to these boolean'd edges?

What about panel cutters for curved surfaces?

Underrated channel. keep up the good work :)

nice Video and very educational. You are a master!!

Great video. Glad I watched it.

This was a really nice and useful tutorial.

Thanks for your efforts to teach us. I somehow had a lot of problems with the second part of this tutorial. I couldn't at all get it. I think it's a combinations of errors. I've found some of them but I'm sure I will get to the rest of them at least to the point where I'm happy with the result!

The best!

I love the way to also show what key or mouse buttons you use \o/