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Add in Some "Cubes" and Copy Many Lines To Make the Weave!

What to Google - "Bevel Modifier" and "Bevel Weight"

The Bevel Modifier allows you to round edges. Using a Bevel Weight you can control which edges will bevel and how much.

The curve distort tool bends objects along a curve or circle.

What to Google - "Curve Distort"

What to Google - "Texture Mapping"

Texture mapping gives you a very flexible means of coloring/decorating your objects.

What to Google - "Subdivision Surface"

The Subdivision Surface Modifier (Subsurf for short) takes all your faces and divides them up. End result-- rounded corners, smooth finishes.

cgcookie.com/blender/cgc-courses/creating-a-pumpkin/

Recommended Tutorial - Modeling a Pumpkin

Modeling a Pumpkin by Jonathan Williamson

The Mirror Modifier allows you to mirror your work. It doesn't have to be over the axises. You can even mirror over planes at the angles of your choosing.

What to Google - "Mirror Modifier"

cgcookie.com/blender/cgc-courses/blender-basics-introduction-for-beginners/

Recommended Tutorial - Blender Basics

Blender Basics by Jonathan Williamson

What to Google - "Empty X-Ray"

A special "Empty" Object can be set to an image. You can also set X-Ray mode and Transparency to see the image through your objects to reference.

Cthulhu was subtracted from the pumpkin.

How It Was Modeled - Cthulhu Pumpkin

Recommended Tutorial - Texture Mapping

Ridged

Stencil

www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2-FfB9kRmE

What to Google - "Materials"

Smaller Version

of Pumpkin

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Blender 2.7 UV Mapping by Darrin Lile

One way to color objects is assigning material and giving each material a color.

Cthulhu

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The stencil was adjusted to follow the ridges of the pumpkin (so the pumpkin walls would be a consistent thickness for glowing)

How It Was Modeled - Cthulhu Pumpkin

Cthulhu was converted to a mesh and extruded to make a stencil. I then bent him around a circle to mimic the shape of the pumpkin.

How It Was Modeled - Cthulhu Pumpkin

What to Google - "Bezier Curves"

Bezier Curves are a powerful, flexible way to create odd shapes and objects- 2D and 3D!

Cthulhu started some hand drawn doodles that I traced with curves

How It Was Modeled - Cthulhu Pumpkin

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dut5qb3KR74

Recommended Tutorial - Mesh Modeling

The Modeling a Velociraptor series by Jjannaway3D

A tool to get where two objects overlap is called the Boolean Modifier tool (Using the "Intersection" Operation). Think of it like the Venn Diagram of Objects.

Meanwhile the Pumpkin MINUS the Cutter Opens Up the Pumpkin

The "Intersection" of the Pumpkin and My Cutter is the Lid.

What to Google - "Boolean Modifier Intersection"

A Modified Cylinder

Served as My Lid Cutter

How It Was Modeled - Cthulhu Pumpkin

I hollowed the pumpkin out (using a copy and scaled down version of the original)

How It Was Modeled - Cthulhu Pumpkin

What to Google - "Boolean Modifier Difference"

A tool to subtract objects from one another in Blender is called the Boolean Modifier (Using the "Difference" Operation).

Riding the coattails of BlenderCookie's Jonathan Williamson, I modeled a pumpkin.

Recommended Tutorial: Bezier Curves

How It Was Modeled - Cthulhu Pumpkin

Modelling with Curves by BlenderNerd

vimeo.com/31973698

Glowing Cthulhu Pumpkin

In Strong & Flexible Plastic

Exporting for Printing

How It Was Modeled - Coloring!

How It Was Modeled - Cameo

How It Was Modeled - Ornament Components

For color models, I export to x3d format

I assigned colors to each object.

More Details on My Blog!

tgaw.wordpress.com/2014/03/06/open-source-creating-a-breastfeeding-origami-owl-charm-with-blender-and-shapeways/

Using a picture, I created curves to outline the profile.

How It Was Modeled - Cutting the Heart

A Torus was added, sized, and rotated to complete the pendant

The rest of the Ornament Base is a series of standard objects

How It Was Modeled - The Weave

I put a Heart in my Weave and took the Intersection of it

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3D Prints Using

Woven Heart Ornament

(in Full Color Sandstone)

The Cut Cylinder Minus A Cube

Copy the Arch and Flip

Minus Smaller Cylinder

Cylinder

The faces were extruded up to give the symbol height.

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A Whole Line of Stitches

How It Was Modeled -

Breastfeeding Pendant

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Cube

How It Was Modeled -

Breastfeeding Pendant

How It Was Modeled -

Breastfeeding Pendant

The Pendant is based off the Public Domain "International Symbol of Breastfeeding" by Matt Daigle

The curves were converted to a Mesh and filled with Faces.

Cylinder

A modified version (The Mom kinda needed a neck) was traced with curves.

Text

Vicky Somma

vicky@tgaw.com

@TGAW

http://www.shapeways.com/shops/tgaw

How It Was Modeled -

Breastfeeding Pendant

How It Was Modeled -

Breastfeeding Pendant

Cube

How It Was Modeled -

Breastfeeding Pendant

Breastfeeding Pendant

(In Various Steel Finishes)

Schrodinger's Cat

(In Full Color Sandstone)

Exporting for Printing

Customized Standing Cancer Ribbons

(Strong & Flexible Plastics)

Moving Dial-O-Lantern

In Strong & Flexible Plastic

For single color models, I export to .STL

How It Was Modeled - Schrodinger's Cat

I used my own doodles as reference images.

Moving Dial-O-Lantern

Dial-O-Lantern is made three separate parts that print already assembled.

How It Was Modeled - Schrodinger's Cat

www.instructables.com/id/3D-Printed-Configurable-Jack-O-Lantern-With-Moving/

School Bus Wine Stopper

(in Gold Plated Steel)

For modeling details, please visit my Instructables article.

How It Was Modeled - Dial-O-Lantern

How It Was Modeled - Cancer Ribbon

I made a curve of how I wanted the ribbon

First I marked seams of places it made sense to "cut" the cat such as the legs.

How It Was Modeled - Coloring!

Blender translated that to a map for me to decorate, which I chose to do in Gimp (like Photoshop)

Exporting for Printing - Multicolored Models

For multi-color models, I export to x3d format

Library of Congress Ornament

(in Gold Plated Steel)

The distance between the inside and outside is my "wall thickness"

Public Domain Photo by Carol M. Highsmith

How It Was Modeled - Cancer Ribbon

Zip the x3d file AND any texture images for uploading.

With curves, you can define a "Bevel Object" - a cross section. My cross section was made of two rectangles (so the ribbon would be hollow)

The wheels, cylinders!

The School Bus is ALL standard objects!

Even all the engravings are combinations of cubes!

How It Was Modeled -

School Bus Wine Stopper

The bus body, just two cubes!

The door-- a cube minus two smaller cubes.

The curve was converted to a Mesh

How It Was Modeled - Cancer Ribbon

How It Was Modeled -

School Bus Wine Stopper

To give the bus a rounded look, it was beveled.

How It Was Modeled - LOC Ornament

The ornament started as two Spheres-- a large one and a small one to make a hollow ornament

Added some faces at the "feet" of our ribbon.

How It Was Modeled - Cancer Ribbon

All the features of the bus were "engraved"

How It was Modeled -

School Bus Wine Stopper

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How It Was Modeled - Cancer Ribbon

To flatten the feet, a cube was subtracted from the ribbon

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To attach the bus to the stud of the wine stopper, a cylinder was subtraced from another cylinder.

How It Was Modeled -

School Bus Wine Stopper

Only 1/16th was modeled.

I subtracted Cubes from my sphere to make one little wedge for modeling.

How It Was Modeled - LOC Ornament

How It Was Modeled - Cancer Ribbon

Text was added and then bent along the exact curve as the ribbon.

How It Was Modeled -

School Bus Wine Stopper

More details on my blog!

tgaw.wordpress.com/2014/10/14/open-source-making-a-school-bus-wine-stopper-with-blender-shapeways-and-niles-bottle-stoppers/

The text was converted to a mesh and then raised up (aka Extrude)

How It Was Modeled - Cancer Ribbon

How It Was Modeled - LOC Ornament

The windows, doors and archways all stemmed from cylinders and were subtracted from the ornament

How It Was Modeled - LOC Ornament

Once carved, mirrors were used to make a full sphere again.

How It Was Modeled - LOC Ornament

The flooring started as circles

"Cubes" were subtracted to make the aisles

Creative Commons Image by Jiuguang Wang

How It Was Modeled - LOC Ornament

More Details on Instructables!

www.instructables.com/id/Library-of-Congress-3D-Printed-Christmas-Ornament/

What to Google - "Mesh Modeling"

Mesh modeling (aka Polygonal modeling) is the most common Blender technique at creating 3D objects.

Fun Fact: Only 1/4th of the Cat was modeled (and he/she started as a cube!)

Mirrors were used to make sure the cat was the same on the front and back

Then the cat was made nice and smooth. : )

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