Backhoe Contribution – duerer – Wheels / Rear Axle

[spikeyxxx]

That part alone took me more than two weeks to “finish”!

Still have some shading issues:

Link to my file is in my thread.

These axles are extremely hard, but, worth the effort!!!

[Ingmar Franz]

You’re absolutely right,  @spikeyxxx  , and excellent work by you 👍! We  certainly learned a lot from this challenge. I had to fix some alignment  and shading issues on my rear axle and my axle end housing  is almost completed but it’s not yet all quads:

The new assignment file is here.

[Ingmar Franz]

This is now my rear axle with a complete all-quad axle end housing:

File is here.

[Shawn Blanch]

I learned yet another gold nugget. Thank you!

[Ingmar Franz]

Is this how the axle end housings are rotated?

I had to move the yoke (?) closer to the backhoe’s center line and widen the yellow part on the right image half a little bit. I unfortunately don’t know any image showing the real life yoke sizing on positioning.

Animation is here.

[Ingmar Franz]

I’ve done some “Shrinkwrap Modifier” and “Shrink/Fatten” smoothing on the rear axle end housing:

Not 100% perfect but the original isn’t 100% smooth, too 😉😁. 

[spikeyxxx]

[…]the original isn’t 100% smooth, too

Exactly! The main thing is to avoid pinching, which the Shrinkwrap seems to have taken care of.

[Ingmar Franz]

@spikeyxxx all these parts coming together in such a small space is sometimes driving me crazy. I’m wondering how Kent would solve this. And once again @spikeyxxx, you did an excellent job with your housing and front axle 😀!

[spikeyxxx]

We’ll just have to ask @theluthier in the upcoming stream how he would handle a situation like this…

[Kent Trammell]

Honestly, it looks good to me @duerer. I noticed in your submission file that this area appeared much improved from when you were asking earlier. I’ll look it over during the review and offer a suggestion or two. But it’s good enough in my book. For such a bizarre shape, you’ve done a great job. Don’t stress over the imperfection!

[Ingmar Franz]

The blue pads are now connected to the green gearbox main body:

[Ingmar Franz]

And the yellow tubes are now also connected to the gearbox:

Once again, the “Shrinkwrap Modifier” did the job. Otherwise I would have been lost.

File is here.

[Ingmar Franz]

The magenta top and bottom parts are now welded to the gearbox:

Two new shrinkwrap target objects had to be added: One for the blue pad in the front and one for the two yellow tubes.

File is here.

[Ingmar Franz]

Thanks to spikeyxxx ‘s video posting here, I could extract some screenshots which show the rear axle very detailed:

[Ingmar Franz]

The two magenta parts at both sides of the orange tube of the gearbox are now woven into the gearbox mesh:

File is here.

There’re some problems with the shading at the bottom of the gearbox:

[Author]

Posts