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Slice and Bend Objects (Patreon)

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2023-06-12 10:32:00
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One of the stranger lack of features in Blender, is the inability to "slice" an object. By "slice" I mean to add evenly spaced cuts throughout the object in one dimension only. Funny how Lightwave had this feature over 30 years ago, and Blender still doesn't.

There are so many reasons to want to do this, and one being bending the object. There's just no way to do it easily without an addon. I talked with Jerry about this (Hard Ops developer) and he added it to Hard Ops, so that's one way of doing it. But, for me, I wanted a way to do it natively-- so I ended up creating this video showing you how to do it. I also go through a simple bending process (another very confusing aspect of Blender) as well as applying the brushed metal materials I recently shared.

Hope it helps.

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Slice object in 1 direction and Bend it in Blender

This quick tutorial goes over how to slice an object in order to bend it properly using good topology. No addons are necessary for the slicing operation. Also shown is how to apply brushed metal with anisotropic reflections. Download the brushed metal materials from my Patreon for $1. See below for links. 00:00 Introduction 00:06 Intro 00:33 Create 3D Type 01:27 Slicing Strategies 01:37 Remesh has issues 02:11 SubD doesn't work either 02:45 Best way to slice 03:41 Bounding Box 1 04:20 Bounding Box 2 05:08 Adding Loopcuts 05:30 Removing Faces 05:39 Knife Project 06:30 Bending the logo 08:13 Adding Brushed Metal 09:50 Adjusting Brush Scale 11:01 Anisotropic reflections 11:50 Final Render DISCORD http://cw1.me/discord PATREON https://patreon.com/chippwalters KIT OPS 2 PRO https://gum.co/kitopspro https://blendermarket.com/products/kit-ops-pro-asset--kitbashing-addon CYBERDECKS KPACKS at Blender Market: https://blendermarket.com/products/cyberdecks SIMPLE SCIFI https://blendermarket.com/products/simple-scifi-pro https://chippwalters.gumroad.com/l/simplescifi QSHOT2 https://blendermarket.com/products/quick-shot https://chippwalters.gumroad.com/l/quickshot EEVEE+Cycles Materials System https://blendermarket.com/products/definitely-eevee-materials-system https://chippwalters.gumroad.com/l/EEVEE2 KIT OPS PARALLAX https://blendermarket.com/products/kit-ops-parallax https://chippwalters.gumroad.com/l/koparallax DESIGN MAGIC https://chippwalters.gumroad.com/l/designmagic https://blendermarket.com/products/design-magic KIT OPS 2 FREE https://gum.co/kitops https://blendermarket.com/products/kit-ops-free SYNTH https://gum.co/kitopssynth https://blendermarket.com/products/kit-ops-synth KIT OPS BATCH https://gumroad.com/l/kitopsbatch https://blendermarket.com/products/kit-ops-batch K-Cycles https://blendermarket.com/products/k-cycles?ref=295 Sci-Fi in a Box by GREEZYBEAR https://blendermarket.com/creators/greezybear?ref=295 https://gumroad.com/a/1049842803 Perspective Plotter by Mark Kingsnorth https://blendermarket.com/products/perspective-plotter?ref=295

Comments

Kevin Page

Very cool - thank you! When you say you talked with Jerry and he added it to HardOps, are you referring to the Dice function? That's been in there a while, no?

chippwalters
>>111660882

Yup. He called it Dice. It's a function that's been a part of many other modelers but for some reason never made it to Blender. Not sure why. Lightwave, which I used in the past, had a feature called Slice and that's what I was telling Jerry about. Since it was my idea (or really Lightwave),, he has no issue with me releasing a version of it.

Kevin Page
>>111660882

oh nice! And I was in no way suggesting you were stepping on Jerry's toes - I just wanted to verify if Dice was the same thing, since I also own HardOps. Thanks again!