Wrought Iron Experiment
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After being asked how to draw some twisted iron spindles by a friend, I came up with these.
The spindle component is only 47 Kb so they'd be extremely light when added to a model.
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Perhaps a short tutorial on how you did it with EEbyRails would be useful to others who are more cerebrally challenged...
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Ok. Consider it done. Here's a tutorial.
The file size can be reduced to about 37Kb by making only half the twist component that I used. And to about 32 Kb by quartering.
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Excellent tutorial - thanks
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Thank you, TIG. I couldn't have done it without you.
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By the way, I didn't mention this in the tutorial but to use the spindles on a stair rail, I just flip the top instance of the end so it is mirrored relative to the bottom one. That way, the miter cuts at the ends go in the correct direction. In the example I flipped the top along the red axis because the rail runs parallel to the red global axis and the spindle has not been rotated.
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@dave r said:
Thank you, TIG. I couldn't have done it without you.
Well actually you could have...
You just needed to stitch together all of the parts of the helices to form the faces and then reverse them, smooth them etc etc... Of course drawing all of those lines is a pain - but not impossible
Likewise drawing a helix by hand is also possible... using rotate array copy and move etc multiple times... but again it just takes ages to do...
The Helix and EEbyRails plugins just make life a lot lot simpler
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Nice Dave.
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TIG, you are right of course but I would have gotten bored and wandered off to look at shiny stuff.
Thank you Eric.
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Classic. Very nice.
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Thought I'd share what I did with this
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