Collab 2020: Modeling Heavy Equipment (Backhoe)

[Adrian Bellworthy]

@artifact you are right, from that image there is a fairly sharp edge. There is a shadow from there to the window to be mindful of.  My approach here I think would be to take the edge you highlighted in green and extrude and scale down and adjust the shape of this extruded edge to match as best you can the shape of the window frame. If you find the window frame is too low @theluthier will be able to adjust to match your engine enclosure. 

If you can save a file in the WIP folder on Google Drive, I will give you an example of what I mean.

As for files made in 2.8, they will be fine in 2.9. The issue comes when files made in 2.9 then opened in 2.8. So continue in 2.8 and you will be fine.

Strange though because I have less trouble opening the Dog file in 2.9.

[artifact]

@adrian2301 Thanks, Adrian. Will post the WIP on Drive later on today and we can assess it further from there. 

As for my 2.9 issues,  I can see my laptop’s hard disk is getting thrashed when I open the files, pretty much staying at 100% and then the laptop crashes. Strangely, 2.8 is a bit slow to open the file but is otherwise OK once the file opens.

[Adrian Bellworthy]

I can’t see how this would effect your hard drive. Unless you are have low GB’s of RAM and you are using virtual memory (an allocation of space on your hard drive to be used as if it was RAM. How much GB memory do you have installed?? I have 16GB and it opens fine, as long as I don’t have anything else going on in the back ground. 8GB should be enough but slow opening. if you have that or more check your virtual memory settings as it maybe set too high or prioritise the hard drive over the RAM.

You probably know this but I used to work for a company building PC’s, laptops and servers to order, but there is a lot of hidden settings most people don’t know about. especially in Windows OS.

[Omar Domenech]

Thank you for taking the time to illustrate that with a gif. Will be doing just that as soon as I can.

[artifact]

@adrian2301 My laptop has 8GB RAM. I have allocated 520GB of the hard disk to virtual memory so I dont know why that would be the issue. Still, I suppose 8GB is pretty low for RAM nowdays. It is a fairly old laptop.

[Shawn Blanch]

Yeah 8GB of RAM is almost a minimum recommendation for Blender as I was shopping for my new Lappy. According to Blender.0rg the minimum is 4GB. So 8GB should be sufficient for most tasks (though our DOG is getting more and more complex of a model and is definitely High Poly Count). Maybe your install or blender build has an issue. But back to the original comment: Kent said to continue using 2.8 to finish up this project @artifact.

I’m saving myself from Blender 2.9 and haven’t used it since beta. I’m kind-of using it as a milestone reward for finishing this project.  Prizes always motivate me to keep going.

[artifact]

@blanchsb I thought the same and tried a reinstall…no dice. Still crashing. And now for the last 3 hours, 2.8 is also not opening the Dog Files either. This is exasperating…

[Adrian Bellworthy]

@artifact can you open your own engine enclosure file and then link others in if you need them, like the chassis or cab??

Please say yes……. we need you…… 😟

No more hardware woes for this project 🙏

Don’t really need the master file to work with, I only open it to view for intersection or issues.

[artifact]

@adrian2301 I’m giving that a shot. Fingers crossed…

[artifact]

@adrian230 I can open my own blend file OK. And linking in the cab and chassis works. Still slow for sure, but atleast responsive enough to get some work done! Thank you, Adrian.

[Adrian Bellworthy]

Phew!! 😌

[artifact]

Phew indeed…

[artifact]

@adrian2301 Intersection with the chassis should be gone now. 

[Adrian Bellworthy]

That looks great @artifact 

[artifact]

Thanks @adrian2301

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