Making a horn using Shape Bender
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Hi there,
I'm trying to make a round horn using a cone, arc and the Shape Bender plug-in. I've come quite far, but I'm not there yet. The file I've attached will show how far I've gotten. Any advice on this? Thanks!
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What kind of horn are you trying to create? A rhino horn, or a trumpet like horn?
Looks like you almost have a great rhino horn going there.
Chris
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@matsuo said:
Hi there,
I'm trying to make a round horn using a cone, arc and the Shape Bender plug-in. I've come quite far, but I'm not there yet. The file I've attached will show how far I've gotten. Any advice on this? Thanks!
Better to use FredoScale radial bend
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Hi, folks!
What are the advantages of these tools over 2 Faces + Path?
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They each do differnr things. Fredoscale is an entire suite of tools that include sheer, twist, taper, etc. It's a great tool for changing the shape of objects.
I wrote shape bender to help bend shapes to match a desired bend. So if you have a curvy wall and want to apply 3d text to it (like a string of words) and you want them to bend to follow the curvature of the wall, then use shape bender. That is precisely what I had in mind when I wrote it. But it is much more versatile than just that too though.
I would recommend downloading and playing with both of those plugins.
Chris
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Thanks for your reply, Chris.
Your Shape Bender and Fredo6´s FredoScale have already saved me lots of frustration. Needless to mention the effort and hard work you folks put into it, providing us with extra functionality in SU.
I was just referring to this particular "horn" case and possible differences in bending a cone vs. making a curvy horn from the start.
If there are any, of course.
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Hehehe, oops!Chris
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Right...I've tried using Radial Bend by Fredo, and I'm almost there, except for 1 problem...after the bending holes appear in the horn! Any suggestions?
Thanks!
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Depending on how much you want to bend the shape, one suggestion would be to use Spiralizer and import the resulting dxf. That's its sole function...to bend horn shapes into a tight a spiral as you want.
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@matsuo said:
Right...I've tried using Radial Bend by Fredo, and I'm almost there, except for 1 problem...after the bending holes appear in the horn! Any suggestions?
Thanks!
First, there is a plugin to make shapes like cone, torus and etc.
Play with the parameters - press tab. Try this
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i don't know if this will help, but i bent a house and got the same (and extra) problems. after exploding everything (bomb all) and making it a group again, it worked without any trouble.
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Playing with the settings seems to do the trick! Thanks to all for the help!
Cheers
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Alternatively for simpler shapes like a horn try Extrude Edges by Edges...
Horn_EEbyRails.skp -
Sorry for the late reply!
Everything worked out in the end
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