Collab 2020: Modeling Heavy Equipment (Backhoe)

[Omar Domenech]

Ok, I found some of the culprits. 

I turned off all the modifiers. If you select these faces and G to move them, you’ll see they are not connected. That creates problems.

[Omar Domenech]

Be sure to have wireframe turned on, so you can select all the vertices and merge them, because you have X ray and you might not be able to select all the vertices.

Also if you turn “Face Orientation” On, you’ll see faces with flipped normals. For some reason recalculating them doesn’t work. You can do that manually. 

[Omar Domenech]

There seems to be other funky geometry, if you select this vert and G to move it around

You’ll see you have a flying face, I don’t know the actual professional name for that.

But this edge should go all the way to his other end. 

[Karen Trevino]

Omg, thank you so much !!! I kept looking to see if I’d duplicated…I need new glasses 

[Omar Domenech]

That face shouldn’t go all the way down, it should stop at this edge. 

If you delete it you will see there were faces down below, occluded by the large face.

Now fill the face and it reaches the edge it is supposed to and it stops. 

[Omar Domenech]

Now it’s all good. I deleted the bevel and solidify modifiers. They weren’t doing anything there as far as I could tell.

[Omar Domenech]

@ketre Now please please Karen, the next time get Doritos.

[Karen Trevino]

@dostovel The reason I put those on was because I heard Kent mention something about the paper thin not looking realistic. 

Next time I’ll buy you some Kale chips and turn you into a…buck tooth rabbit! heehee…

[Omar Domenech]

Ok I see, I remember Kent saying that. I mean the modifiers there were just making a mess of everything, that tends to happen when things are too bunched up together, you can do the walls and insides manually, just so that the result are cleaner.

[Adrian Bellworthy]

@ketre my fenders were paper thin and I did the same thing, it was suggested to add solidify mod, but I deleted those extra faces first.

Mmmmm Doritos.

[Kent Trammell]

Some amazing peer-to-peer assistance is happening here. You love to see it 👏

[Karen Trevino]

@theluthier yeppers this is an awesome thing, you are doing here. There’s alot I don’t understand as yet. But seeing everyone’s comments makes everyone more real. The struggle is real for everyone…🤓

[Omar Domenech]

You know, you think you speak english until you see something like peer-to-peer. I think it has something to do with boats. I’m afraid of the ocean so I’m gonna skip that one, thank you.

[Karen Trevino]

@dostovel  peer = person but, I’d like to be a boat parked at a peer of some exotic Island.  

[Parker Bourassa]

A Pier is where boats dock. Peer-to-peer means between friends or equals. It means we are all helping each other without Kent needed to get involved too often.

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