I know right. Most modeling tutorials are just “grab this and move it around until it’s looks okay”. I usually have an exact idea of what I want/need with precision measurements in mind, but 90% of tutorials basically tell you to eye it off until you’re happy.
idk what addons you are using at this point i watched your video on the addons “i will be using the whole series” except i don’t even have single vertex
What are your Blender settings because you have at the time 1:33 (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ef7pROo5O0I.html) of the video in the upper left corner (over user Perpective) something standing what I don´t have (Dx: 0.2......) and I can´t finde the single vert ( it´s just going until Monkey) ? I have Blender 3.1
Another extremely well done tutorial, thanks so much. I just got my first 4K monitor and holy cow, what a difference! So thanks for shooting and posting this in 4K. It's great.
Thank you so much - a great lesson, I was so glad to see it that I decided to translate your video into Russian. I learned where I make mistakes when modeling, and learned how to do it right !!!! I wish prosperity to you and your RU-vid channel!
Ok, it's probably something dumb, but I get as far as the 3 flat planes on the top. I select the middle one and switch into CAD Transform (0.95) but no amount of pressing G (or anything else) will make it move. Any ideas?
This was super helpful. I'm coming over from a SketchUp workflow and I hadn't seen a tutorial yet that explained how Blender handles booleans on faces so well. Deleting the face and working with the edges and vertices the "slow way" made it very clear. Thank you!
Based on your videos I was able to model a custom soda maker holder in under an hour! My modelling isn't nearly as polished as yours so I had to clean up excess geometry and recalculate my normals. your course is excellent, thank you!
From where do u have single vent option? Do from zero all coz some of stuff here u prepared before recording as a single vent there is nothing like that in all blender :D 6 out of 10 for this video :D
Can you do tutorial for making uniform thickness in a model.. Because as far as i know solidify is not reliable...especially when modeling for 3d printing
I can't believe I can make something like this! Thank you for your thorough teaching. When I check my mesh with the 3D-Print tool I get 3 "bad contiguous edges" on one of the side triangular panels. Why is that?
Hi Angela........thats because you probably have contiguous faces with flipped normals. Then the common edge for those faces doesnt know what to do. Checking "face orientation" on the overlay should help you see wich one is flipped.
Thanks Jonathan! These videos have been a huge motivation to learn and use blender for precision modeling! It has helped me to do my own models for 3D printing. Looking forward for more.
Excellent video. Never used boolean from the face menu in edit mode. Very kool. I was forever making new object to then cut into my main object. Why do you start with a vertex and build your cube/rectangle? Is it to get the object origin on 0,0,0?
Ya i was quite shocked when I first learnt about face boolean 😂 As for the manual face creation. I only do it so that I did not have to add a whole much a geo by doing loop cuts all over the mesh. Main reason why is because I wanted to show off / use a boolean operation for the first time to have some to reference back to when I show the boolean modifier in a bout 2 videos time.
This is a really well done and informative tutorial and series. You have done a great job showing how blender can be usable for precision modeling. What I don’t get though, is why this is better than using Fusion360. Is it just that some people think this is more intuitive, or do you think there are use cases where this is a better tool?
I think the whole thing with Blender is it's a long term Open Source proj that will eventually provide the whole 3D creative pipeline. Like from sculpting to this. I'm not familiar with Fusion, but I'm willing to bet it's way better than this. But Blender users stomach it because the future is bright.
Nice video as are all of the others previous to this one in your series. Thanks very much. I have a seemingly DUMB problem with this one that I can't seem to solve, however. After creating the 12x4.5 mm plane on top of the rectangular cube, you choose face selection and then move the small plane (using the G key and shift Z) away from the corner of the cube (and 2:56 or so). When I do that, the corner of the cube moves right along with the small plane even though I have selected only the small plane. Huh?
I also had this problem and couldn't figure it out. I made sure all of my auto-merge options were turned off and, after two hours of googling things, my wife (who has about 3 hours of Blender experience) said, "have you tried pressing that button?" "What? No, that doesn't make sense." "Just try it." "Alright, I'll try it." Yup. My proportional editing was turned on just the -right- _wrong_ way to imitate the auto-merging of the vertices... My wife was very proud of herself 😏
I watched the half video and I have more questions than answers. I am a total blender noob. Watched dozens of videos, just to learn how to 3d print with blender and I still have no clue due to the amount of things you can do. However.. When I take a look at here and go in with my default settings, I already encounter some problems... how did you set your metric system to show millimeters instead of meters. it seems like I have to watch your entire video series to find out what you mean with "alt c shortcut for CAD transform"?? How do you define the length/distance keyboard using your numpad? You should explain the settings first before going in and do stuff.
Excellent tutorial! Though, I have a concern with the 3D Print Tool addon... I followed you to the letter and when checking the poorly defined mesh, it doesn't seem to care at all about the intersecting faces. No idea why, can't get it to recognize them. Blender v2.93.2
Watching this made me sad. I'm a longtime Lightwave 3D and Sketchup user and have dabbled in Fusion 360. I've installed Blender every 5 years or so to check in on it and It's become quite a capable package but it still seems to be more of a digital art platform than something for makers. It's basic tools are weird - bevel is a bevel and a chamfering tool all in one (which is infuriating), loop cut/drag offers no precision at all (making boolean operations the only way to do this), there are no guides (even buying construction tools, which promises Sketchup-like workflow, doesn't work when you leave construction mode so snapping). There are a lot of great things about Blender but precision modeling doesn't seem to be one of them. Watching you model such a simple piece seemed really clunky and i kept thinking about how doing I would do it in the other packages that i know and it it seemed like it would require fewer clicks and would be faster. Sketchup would have been the fastest with no addons required,, Lightwave a close second (no addons required) and Fusion 360 would have been the most difficult (but not by much if using 3 sketches). I don't know... maybe i just haven't learned enough about modeling in Blender yet, but this workflow seemed really complicated to me.
Hey man, I was done in the second step haha, cuz I dont see a single vertex option in the "add" function, only a plane and so on...any idea why it is not there? I am a beginner :/ thanx!
Helios, you do realize that you are on part 19 and at the beginning of the video there is a little message that says start at part one. I think that will be the best route for you 😀. Like to the full playlist is in the description
For a 3D printering slicer, mesh is mesh... The first thing it's going to do is triangulate it and then check if it's manifold. SO the long and the short of it... for 3d printing the topology does not really matter it all matters is that it's defined through edges as you want it to be triangulated.
I don't know what the deal is with CTL SHF RMB, but it does things TOTALLY different than what you're showing. IN face mode, it creates new faces. In vertex mode, it creates new vertices. I don't know Blender broke itself (again) or if there is some strange setting folks need to be aware of.
Thanks Jonathan. I have created the 3 faces located them and have extruded 11mm in z 1. I select all (L) and when I extrude -10 in z I double the mesh?? I have tried again and again to no avail. Any ideas? Great series.
What about exporting it to the slicer? would the exported .stl object would still be accurate or retain the same dimensions when imported from cura or flashforge? answer please thanks.
one of the few intros that actually made me like and sub before i've watched any of ur vids, liking it so far and i'm sure this vid will be helpful, ty
What I see is that the behavior of this CAD transform add-on is erratic, I was going the pull vertex down but the orange circle for selecting the vertex would not show up after G, saved it, restarted Blender then it worked, weird.
You can add a cube, enter in edit mode, select all and press "M" to merge, then select the option "at center". The cube will collapse into vertex, so, if you wanna select it you have to go in "vertex select mode". (Sorry for english, not my first language).
Woa, I remember when u first started this series !! Kickass that u stuck with it !! Great work ! Lookin good ! Checkout a book called 'Ten Books on Architecture" by Vitruvius. The book is life changing in many regards, but my mind is pinging to a section ... Book III has a bunch of symmetry stuff. Really cool stuff in there.
Why on my Blender there is no single vertex to add when i press 'shift+a' like in the beginning of this video? can anybody give me an explaination please?
I often get frustrated by FreeCAD and I’ve been trying blender instead and I have to wonder, with how polished blender is if isn’t more likely that with more precision CAD plug-in development that blender will someday soon surpass FreeCAD as the OSS 3D CAD of choice
So I know this might be a stupid question, but to just make sure I understand. I'm kinda better off doing precision modeling in CAD sketcher than like this, right? This is just before CAD sketcher was out? Or would you still recommend using this method over CAD sketcher?
I would still 100% recommend learning blender precision modelling and then diving into CAD Sketcher. Especially as it's very alpha atm. On top of that CAD Sketcher is just a tool to facilitate blender precision modeling. I hope that helps.
@@Keep-Making thank you so much for replying! So just so I understand.. Supposed to be getting my first 3d printer next week, and I want to start modeling my first print. I started using CAD, and dint watch all your playlist as I thought it was outdated and that CAD sketcher was better. So if I want to start modeling, should I use CAD sketcher at all? Or should I juts use blender for precision modeling? Also thank you so much for your work, your my guide and guru on this journey so far...
@@michaelorlev9925 No worries. Ya it's a tricky thing of blender it's updating all the time. Funny thing tho. Everything in this precision course still stands. Not a single thing has changed so it's still very much up to date. It's a hell of a long watch but learning everything I have in the playlist will put you in a perfect spot to truly take advantage of CAD Sketcher. Jumping right into CAD Sketcher now while still learning is going to be tough as blender/mesh modelling is not very forgiving when it comes to precision. Just as a little upsell if you want to get modelling asap for 3D printing don't forget I have this lovely course where you learn blender precision modeling while actually doing 3D printable designs 😉: academy.makertales.com/
You didn’t explain how to get Blender to show in real time onscreen how big you’re making objects, how far you’re moving something, etc. It’s impossible to make things if you can’t see how big you’re making them.
Hey Konix.... You might find that this being video "part 19" that going through he series might help: ru-vid.com/group/PL6Fiih6ItYsXzUbBNz7-IvV7UJYHZzCdF
So.. Blender works in Meters right. 1.000 m - When I added mesh and changed it 0.030 (for 30cm) it obviously extremely small and can't work on it. In other cases (apart from what you shown here) do you just model any size, and resize it later in 3D print software?
in my blender software, when you do the first step to make a "single vertex" when i do this step, i dont have the dropdown option to do "single vertex. the dropdown only goes to "monkey" is there something i am missing? first time using blender btw
Hi Jatronco Jatronco, I'm not sure where it might not be clear. Maybe i'm not understanding yoru question. Be sure to check out the selection video to understand all my selection methods ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vi6cQCnaM4A.html
Hell and thank you for the tutorial! May be you have a solution about my „cad tool“. I need to switch it on every time I am starting a new blender file. How can I keep the addon turned on? In preferences it is on whole the time. Best regards :)
If this is about CAD transforms, I would be sure that you have saved your preferences once activated. If you are still having problems your best place to ask is here: blenderartists.org/t/cad-like-transform/1226197
To make holes like this, I use edge loops, Press them to the edge then precisely move them over. then you can just Extrude inwards. Way less convoluted.
Hey Joseph that would add extra topology to the design which would make the over all shape unachievable without then having to go back and remove edges and then add more edges in the right place to define the chamfers and of course keep in mind that this is part of a tutorial series i'm teaching tools and techniques for MUCH more complicated designs, I doubt you would use an edge loop for a round hole or for adding more that 10+ holes in one time. I'm not saying that your method is wrong at all, as I do exactly what you are saying all the time. Just keep in mind the context of where this information is presented.
Very interesting to see how my experience with polygon flows actually translates to precision modelling. For all of the artists joining in, going all quads on sloped surfaces seems like the right way to go for 3d printing as well :thumbsup:
Thank's ! I have same USB key so i recreated this objet on linux Mint with Blender 2.9.1: not easy ,but done ! Just a little problem with the selection LOOP on linux (but not on windows )> i hold halt and reclic on edge but ....the loop selection bug^^ .....i continue ^_ ^
I thought the purpose of the new Extrude Manifold tool was to make pushing those hole faces into the base easy...similar to the Sketchup Push-Pull tool? But it doesn't seem to work like that.
I've found that the biggest problem with that tool is that it creates all sorts of duplicate vertices and non-joined geo. To solve the problems that exist after using it, I select the entire model and apply "merge by distance" and it fuses everything together the way you originally intended it to be. I use push/pull in SketchUp all the time and never have issues with it. My first time using it in Blender was a bit of a nightmare. Now, not so bad, but I've found that I tend to fall back to vanilla methods, like in this video, out of habit because I know what I'm going to end up with. Add-ons Meshmachine/MachineTools/HardOps mesh cleanup tools also work to fix things pretty well.
I'll be showing how to use the Extrude Manifold tool soon. In a nutshell many people are misusing the tool and creating more problems than solutions in the long run. In reality the extrude manifold is actually quite a niche tool as it really destroys geometry and can make the use of any loop operations impossible after use.
@@Keep-Making OK Thank you. I finally got the holes in and the part made even though the center loop cut refused to work for me as shown in the instructions. It would not follow the hole sides and instead made the loop directly across the top of the holes as if they weren't even there. Then Blender would create some messy extra faces over the holes. Eventually I just made manual cuts with the knife tool and everything worked properly. Thanks for another clear, informative tutorial.
Well good to hear you found a way to get over the hurdles. Keep an eye out tho... IF loop tools are not working it means you might have some none quad or broken geo somewhere.
@@Keep-Making Cheers! Getting back into Blender, post Solidworks, solely for 3D printing. Appreciate the video series rather than the plethora of ad hoc offerings out there. For ex Solidworks users looking to leverage their existing knowledge, Blender can be particularly frustrating. So, until the Blender gurus come up with a parametric design implementation, this is where establishing Blender specific approaches, workflows and best practices will help ease the pain.... 😉 Keep up the great work! 👍
