Some tips and tricks from out of the Box
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 @baz said: @ntxdave said: All I can say is WOW!    That one will really take some studying and a WHOLE LOT of practice. Good. And hopefully you recognise that this thread is not meant to be a one on one tutorial. 
 What I think it is, is Box putting his slightly insane sketchup imagination out there.
 And you are bogging him down.But. About your questions...How about a new post.EG: 'Boxions No1'? I"ll follow... not a trump fan. xx SORRY! Maybe someone can remove my posts or move them to a discussion thread. Perhaps we could get Box to add a tip numer or name to each and then we could have a discussion thread for exact of the tip names/numbers. If that is done, maybe a monitor can move my posts/questions to the appropriate thread. 
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 Just repost the gif as a post and give it a name...'How does this Box gif work' would do it... 
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 Good point Baz but how do we clean up the junk I created in this thread so we get it back to the way it should be? 
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 It's not that important really, I don't think there are that many people interested in the thread. 
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 @box said: It's not that important really, I don't think there are that many people interested in the thread. 2000+ views, but I wonder how many are following? No way to see that info from this side I presume. 
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 I’m definitely following this thread and intend to go back and try to recreate the lessons in each gif. I didn’t find the questions and comments distracting, as some of the questions were ones I had myself! 
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 I haven't recorded any interesting gifs lately but I did continue to doodle with Truebend. 
 So here's a render of a couple of crazy ceramic fruitbowls. Created using a version of the method shown above.
  
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 Magical transformations! I am fan!  
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 Here's a simple one, just demoing the basics of building a shape as a solid. No detail in the teeth or accurate dimensions but it was done to show the process.  
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 @jljolin said: I’m definitely following this thread and intend to go back and try to recreate the lessons in each gif. I didn’t find the questions and comments distracting, as some of the questions were ones I had myself! same here! 
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 Sorry, not a tip or trick as such, but an experiment in mostly SUbD and Clothworks for making chain mail. 
  
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 What size are they? 
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 One of them is a shoulder. But you guys can look at things your own way. 
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 @box said: One of them is a shoulder. But you guys can look at things your own way. Be buggered if I can see a shoulder... 
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 Ok, enough renders for now. 
 How to make a twisted cable.
 The plugin off screen is Fredo's Twisting. 
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 Prima again !    
 after you have already twisted all the cables, about in the middle of the gif you delete 5 outer cables to copy the remainig outer one again around the middle axis 5x again - what makes this new copy step necessary?
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 It's not technically necessary, but the twist has made them all unique components even though they are identical. By replacing them they become instances of one component rather than 6 separate components, this saves file size and makes it easier to modify them if I need to in future. 
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 @box said: Ok, enough renders for now. 
 How to make a twisted cable.
 The plugin off screen is Fredo's Twisting. Mmmmm, licorice. Nice thinking, mate.  
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