Comments on: How to model a pillar in Blender 3D

By: adamant

adamant — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:21:01 +0000

I miss boolean operations and revolution transforms with instancing.

I came at modeling from the technical side, where making things like this would be fast and painless. 3dsMax was always awkward and weak for a lack of many of the features I became accustomed to, and the demands of stretching my own mesh to nodes is even more painful.

Isn’t there a quicker or at least less labor intensive way of making simple features in blender?

By: ATSkill

ATSkill — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:51:48 +0000

Johnathan, that is very easy to do. Simply start off with a circle of 48 vertices, and after rotating it use three faces instead of one.
but really, as long as you understand the basic process of the tutorial, you can swap out any number of faces and indents to get the effect you want.

By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:00:57 +0000

Great tutorial. I’ve modeled at least a thousand fluted columns. . .I can’t believe I never thought of this.

By: Jonathan Lloyd

Jonathan Lloyd — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:22:47 +0000

Great tutorial! As a slight improvement it would be good to ensure the pilar is more rounded rather than flat along the sides with the extrusions.

By: Allan Brito

Allan Brito — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:05:13 +0000

Hi Bobbby,

Select the edge and press X or Del.

By: bobbby

bobbby — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:52:19 +0000

this is very bad u need to explain how to do everything. I am new to this and i didnt know how to erase the edges.