Serrated Edge

Maya for 3D Printing - Rapid Prototyping

In this course we're going to look at something a little different, creating technically accurate 3D printed parts.

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# 1 04-03-2012 , 02:52 AM

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I was curious what the best way to model a serrated edge on a blade. I've done it but it was very time consuming. I'm familiar with poly and sub d modeling, no experience with nurbs.

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# 2 04-03-2012 , 03:25 AM

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This is how I would do it, after duplicating and merging, just extrude the back down to close the hole and the tip can be done fairly easily aswell

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# 3 04-03-2012 , 04:31 AM

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If it's not going to be seen up close, you could probably get away with a flat plane with mapped transparency.

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# 4 04-03-2012 , 07:30 AM

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Acid that looks perfect for what i needed. And simpler than i was doing it. Now that i see it that was looks obvious now...

NextDesign, I plan on having a fairly close view, i also prefer to have as much detail modeled as possible instead of textured. Mostly for the challenge of modeling.

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