Collab 2020: Modeling Heavy Equipment (Backhoe)

[Rita Geraghty]

No worries, Jack. I was months away from my computer during lockdown. My PC was in another location. I’m glad to be back on it. I thought I was most behind others. Perhaps so. 

[Shawn Blanch]

@ritag  This is a picture I took of a 430F model.

Actually I zoomed into this picture I took and it is a solid plastic back. Your chair is probababably similar.

[Karen Trevino]

@adrian2301 Its a thing of beauty! Seems wierd calling a huge monstrosity beautiful, but it is when you see someone mastering difficult parts like this 🤩

[Karen Trevino]

@ritag it’s so good to see you making great stuffs in this collaboration. 😍

[Shawn Blanch]

@adrian2301 I found another intersection/collision area. Can you be a big pal and fix it on your side? I am running out of ways to move my loaders arms left and right, lol.

It’s the lifting eye on the undercarriage. It can go forward OR aft OR shrink closer to the chassis, but it can’t be there or it will get bent haha.

My loader arms are moved in 1.8″ towards the center from the previous livestream copy in order to make room for the battery box tank-fill and hydraulic connections. I can post my model this evening for better reference. Just doing a little cleanup of object naming.

[Adrian Bellworthy]

No problem I’ll see to that.

[Shawn Blanch]

@pfbourassa and @adrian2301: I am done with my full assembly and am uploading it here:

Collab File: Blanchsb_Done
(update: Current upload date-time: 7-9-2020; 9:38 P.M. CST)

Hydraulic Lines should be ready to be used for reference. We ought to discuss how we plan to submit our 3 in 1 venture file soon. Or maybe we just upload our three individual copies still?

[Shawn Blanch]

I just remembered I did not apply a few bezier curves for some jubilee bands. I re-uploaded the file and the link should still work.

[Kent Trammell]

“Little side project”?! If anything I thought you all would hate modeling heavy equipment by this point 😅

Looks great though! Unsurprisingly 🤘

[Kent Trammell]

Getting a jumpstart on the cabin interior @ritag! Looks great so far. That reminds me I need to make a new diagram for dividing interior parts among the team.

[Shawn Blanch]

@adrian2301 We now have motivation to model more and more things like tree stumps and rocks and any scrap to be loaded into the dump truck; plus the surrounding environment……… This live stream has plenty of opportunity and could potentially go on and on and on and………..

[Omar Domenech]

Blanch, that is a thing of beauty. It turned out freaking great.

[Omar Domenech]

Modeling is kind of addictive, it bet it lights up the same parts of the brain that drugs do. They’ll soon make 3D illegal.

[Shawn Blanch]

@dostovel Actually you don’t realize how much that comment really hits home! I do 3D modeling as an addiction recovery activity (not that I am addicted to drugs or anything illegal) but there are tons of things we become addicted to that aren’t overly healthy for us. You are completely correct that creating things causes a chemical release (I’m sure dopamine is a part of that). The difference is that it requires work to create as opposed to consuming most other addictive items.

Most addictive substances come easy and cause chemical dumps which create cravings. I’d rather spend time modeling than with my other addictive behaviors. So much more rewarding.

The day they make 3D illegal is the day I join the underground modeling ring.

[Omar Domenech]

Yes, count me in on the underground modeling ring. The password for getting in will be “What did Adrian model?” And the answer is “A Bell, so he’ll be worthy of his last name.” And then the doors will open. Welcome.

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