Reply To: Backhoe Contribution – Blanchsb – Exterior Loader Arms and Interior Chair
I completely redesigned the jubilee clip band using a template bezier circle and two base thin band meshes. One piece represented the band with the tightening cut-out slits and the other represented a solid band.
I assigned them both to the bezier circle to start with.
Once I got it all into position around the piston I duplicated a small section of the bezier circle and separated it to a separate piece. Then I cut a small portion of that duplication area out of the original bezier circle just below the tightening screw.
Then I assigned the base mesh band with slits to the smaller portion of the separated duplicate.
So two pieces fitting into 1 per-se. I haven’t mated them up yet but I thought I would share my thought process. This actually took me all night to think about haha.
Hopefully that makes sense. Maybe @spikeyxxx could recommend a better process but I think I was being clever this time around.
I’ll make the individual jubilee clips a little more unique tomorrow but that is an easy task of just moving the small bezier curve around a little. It would be nice to know if there was a way to join the two pieces together easily. I may just apply the mods once I am happy with it and do a quick merge since it is only one section that needs to be mated from the two band base meshes.