TrueBend Axis Problem

[Rich O Brien]

@Gus-R Yeah, there 10 different ways of doing it. Both natively or via plugins.

[ntxdave]

@Rich-O-Brien Thanks Rich, Gus & TIG. I finally got my act together and was able to figure things out before seeing these last posts. Here is my result (but I like the stuff you guys did as well).

I guess this "exercise" exemplifies my age and lack of use lately.

[Gus R]

@ntxdave You're welcome, Dave. I was trying to figure out how to do my brick arches in Blender that doesn't involve an hour on some procedural. There's a lot of really good videos on Youtube but nothing that gets it done fast and simple. Then while there's a lot of great Youtube tutorials on Blender a lot of them seem to talk 100 MPH and they have 20/15 vision.

[Rich O Brien]

@ntxdave said in TrueBend Axis Problem:

exemplifies my age and lack of use lately

Horses for courses. Always a good idea to get ideas from others to see what comes out of the hat

[ntxdave]

@Rich-O-Brien Did you do your model with native tools or a plugin? Yes, I know it is a dumb question but I just had to ask. I have never seen the rotation tool used like that.

[Box]

@ntxdave
Rich used Radial Bending, part of Fredo's Fredoscale.

[ntxdave]

@Box Thank you sir.

I have not used that tool so I will do some playing around.

[ntxdave]

@ntxdave said in TrueBend Axis Problem:

@Box Thank you sir.

I have not used that tool so I will do some playing around.

I am feeling really stupid.

I have watched @Box’s video several times and have also watched a couple of tutorials but I seem to have real problems trying to use the tool. Can someone give me a somewhat detailed (step by step) explanation of how to accomplish this?

[Box]

@ntxdave
It tells you what to do in the task bar.
It is basically four single click and releases.
A click at the start of the bend a click at the end of the bend then a click passed the bend and then bend it and a final click to complete.

I used the red blocks in my original to give me visual start and stop points for the bend.

[ntxdave]

@Box Thank you sir! I finally got things working correctly and was able to "play around" a little. The image below represents what I figured out using the FredoScale tools. I greatly appreciate your help.