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I used to fear Blender curves until I discovered this playlist, and it all made sense:

[Shale Lewis]

If you do more courses like this, please include the trick you show in one of the videos on your channel, in which you cleverly use a lattice deform to arrange plants along a wall and fold their leaves against the wall, instead of letting the leaves intersect the wall and hope nobody notices…

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I think you’ll be impressed with the features starting around the 10-minute mark in the video; a few things I could have used on this project!

Also, FYI, I made the architrave profile as a closed-loop bezier, which is great practice for working with curves.

When I converted it to mesh for extrusion, the vertex spacing was perfect.

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No, but I will try that, thanks Martin!

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All better now!

I appreciate everyone’s feedback.  I learn more by having to untangle my mistakes than by starting over–because sometimes you don’t realize you’ve made errors until you’re too far along to start over.

I also discovered that the UV Sync Selection is nice for troubleshooting, but does NOT regenerate every time I change seam configuration in the model, which it probably should.

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Thank you very much for the detailed feedback, Sascha and Martin and Omar!  Sorry I didn’t respond earlier; I went to bed and then had an early appointment this morning.  Now I will try to fix this mess.

Sascha, those troubleshooting tool tips are great, I didn’t know about them.  Also, it’s possible I made some seam lines with F instead of J, although I make a habit of using J to draw lines across existing faces.  And I need to read more about when to use the knife tool, since I always forget about that.

I already watched the CORE tutorials many months ago, but forgot a few things, apparently.  I’ve spent the past year learning Blender, SketchUp, Twinmotion, D5, and Unreal, so things get confusing sometimes.  In some ways learning multiple apps helps me learn faster; in other ways I have to do remedial homework after awhile.

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Oh, okay, so the floor is not a material to be applied, it’s just for checking orientation…

I was just going crazy with my UV unwrapping, because it came out all crooked. Then I poked around for awhile and reshaped the corner of the window trim. Then I realized that I had a face inside the trim flipped inside out.

I haven’t used Blender for a few months, and I totally forgot that I used to have Face Orientation turned on at all times!

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Oh, I do have one other question: When you do UV unwraps, why is the UV background wood planks instead of a blank space?

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I went to dinner, took a shower, then realized I didn’t go over the edges carefully before asking for help. I discovered that I had actually marked several seams that were not on the edge of the door and weighted them to 1, and that’s what was causing the distortion. Sometimes I can’t believe the dumb stuff I do! Every tutorial involves me thinking of more efficient ways to do a few things, combined with a few setbacks for really silly reasons…

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Thank you. I just tried drag & dropping that again, but it still didn’t work. Oh well…

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Ah, I’m using a Mac, so maybe the image cut & paste works differently. I did get a green “+” when I tried to drag the screenshot, which indicates a successful copy, but it didn’t appear.

I was careful to hide the sash elbow and check all the corner edges, including the one that arrow is pointing at. I’ll go back and check again. I also merged vertices after you did the extrude-normals in the video, and two were removed, so I don’t think that’s the problem. I’ll tinker with it some more…

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Thanks for letting me know about uploading screenshots, that will save some time 😉

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Wow, that fixed it!  Sorry, I didn’t realize the materials were competing with each other.  Copy modifiers and link materials also worked after I removed them.

Also, a quick tip for shrinking the glass: I subtracted 2mm from the X dimension in object mode and applied scale, which was quicker than trimming each end.

Oh, one more thing…I’m curious why you don’t apply rotation to the shelf pegs?

[Shale Lewis]

Hi Sascha, here it is…

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-Ujd3qXKHbJ0o6-q_YgIsdm5UVXJUkUG/view?usp=sharing

[Shale Lewis]

OK it works now!  I think it maybe worked before, but my eyes were expecting it to appear over or under the Bevel modifier window, and I don’t think I noticed that the window extended below the bottom of the screen, as your screen grab shows.  I’m used to the Bevel window being much smaller, but forgot I have several sub menus open that extend the window considerably.

I will pay more attention to such things before requesting help again…

Thank you once more!

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