Hi Dr Sassi,

Aah yes I understand now, I had a quick play around with it on one of the primitive shapes. Thanks again for your advice

Kind Regards
David

Hi Dr Sassi,

Wow this is very interesting, three different ways to achieve a similar effect Thanks very much.
Can I ask? What is that Geometry Axis tool? What exactly does that do?

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David

Hi Dr Sassi,

Thanks very much, your way is much better (and I thought I'd figured something out all by myself for once, well almost anyway )
My next question is, if I want to cut these out of the cylinder (meaning if I flipped the pyramids so that the pointed end cuts out of the cylinder) how should I correctly apply a Boolean? I tried to do it on your model but it only cut out one pyramid?

By the way, I can see on Noseman's video that you kindly linked to, that this would be very easy to do by poking and scaling the polygons the other way to achieve this exact same result, and that's the way I would do this particular model now. However, I want to know how to do this with Booleans so that I can do this with more irregular shapes where the poke would not work?

Kind Regards
David

Hello!

I'm experimenting with making patterns on surfaces, in this case a cylinder. I've used a clone of a pyramid to wrap it around the surface of the cylinder. I've seen how I can control the amount of pyramids by altering the height and rotation segments of the cylinder when distribution is set to polygon center. However I have two questions.

First, how can I clean up the top? I'd like it to finish clean and flush but currently there are bits pyramids looking untidy (see screenshot). I turned caps off which made things a bit neater but what if I wanted caps and have no pyramids on them?

Secondly, I experimented with flipping the pyramids and put a boolean in there so they cut pyramid shapes out of the cylinder surface. This was great but it started going super slow and at one point Cinema stopped responding. Am I doing this the wrong way? Is there a better method?

Many thanks
Kind Regards
David
Surface Patterns.c4d

@Dr-Sassi Thanks ever so much Dr Sassi,

Unfortunately there's much more to the full model (I just cut this one piece out to make it easier to show) otherwise I would have just modelled it. Fortunately I was eventually able to contact the creator and get a better version, phew! Thanks for the link about importing, I will give this a good read as I often get models and CAD files sent to me so this is an area I need to look into more

Kind Regards
David

@entry-newspaper Hi, thanks yes I eventually managed to get in touch with the creator who sent me a better version, thanks.

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David

Hello,

Someone has sent me a model that came from a CAD file. Unfortunately the geometry isn't smooth enough. In the piece of it I've posted, this part should be a smooth arc but you can see its clearly stepped. Is there a way I can smooth this out so it is nicely rounded without having to remodel it? Many thanks.

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DavidCADfile.c4d

Hi Dr Sassi,

Thanks very much for this, the layers do exactly what I want I didn't know about layers before, I'll be making good use of these from now on

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David

Hi

Is there a way to turn off multiple objects in a scene in one go? I have some products that are often rendered with and without associated accessories. I render out the scene with the full setup and then I create a render with the accessories hidden. When I want to render the product on its own I have to turn off all those little green lights on the objects I want to hide but sometime there can be quite a number. I've tried putting all the objects I want to hide in a null so I could just turn the green light off on that but it didn't work.

Kind regards
David

@Dr-Sassi
Hi Dr Sassi, yes thanks its resolved now.
The support team explained that the Maxon App uses a Lite installer and some of the kernels had not been installed. The solution was to uninstall Redshift and then re-install using the full manual download rather than Maxon App

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David