cool !

Climbing on the bus with everyone else, don't really like subscription based software. Be a great plugin to have but wouldn't be using it everyday.

Going to gang up with Box. Creating a demo video in SU to help sell your product seems like commercial use to me ?

most excellent

beautiful !

HornOxx , thank you very much.

Rich , appreciate your input. I'll have you know I never buy irregular oranges . actually never occurred to me to ovate their shapes a little. as for stems oops they have no stems . I was shooting for a high glaze ceramic look on the bowl and canisters, but I have a noise map I got from the Twilight forum that I'll give a try on the canisters , sort of a side by side comparison. thanks much for the positivity and the critique. chuck.

Latest night time practice. Rendered with Twilight.

Clean modeling, nice render. Like your panorama thru the windows. Just got to say we must travel to waaaay different mountains. Been in a lot of cabins in my life , never seen one that looked like that inside!!! Still it's a very nice clean render.

pretty cool concept I can see mom asking big brother. "where's your little brother", big brother scuffs foot on ground replies "in the wall"

Mike the guy getting the good fee never picks up a hammer or tape. Poor guy with the tool belt gets same $$ wether this or an outhouse.

interesting study, but would hate to be the poor bastard that had to build it....

Not sure why your trying to make your model like this. I'm no expert at 3D printing but have been researching and reading up on it of late. As I understand the process on an object like a vase the thickness of the print would be the distance between the inner and outer wall of the model. It just seems that would be the logical way to make an object like a vase so it's walls are solid. Seems like your trying to model it so there would be a hollow cavity between the inner and outer wall ? If it's trying to cut down the amount of material used I've posted a pick of another vase. The inside follows the contour of the outside. It's actual thickness would be determined by the requirements of the printing material used. As a side note both models I posted check out as solid and could be printed.

If your determined to keep trying what you've been doing. Try using JointPushPull on the outer surface before you twist the vase. After the twist the geometry is insane and it's asking a lot of JPP to try and pull thickness on something with that crazy of geometry. If JPP works before the twist you could group everything and then give it the twist. Remember work REAL BIG !

One last thing if you haven't already, you might talk to a 3D printing service for the best way to approach this.

Oh and if your wondering I scaled the vase down before I saved the image. Sprockets are at the size I did all the modeling.

I'll second solo on this. would cheerfully pay $$

jo-ke , very nice

Now that I understand just what your trying to do here's a way to get there. The steps you do are from left to right in the picture.

Draw your "sprocket". Make a hole in the center for the inside wall. Make it a group. Copy the sprocket up, I did it twice. Scale the sprockets to give the vase taper.

Use Curviloft - Loft by Spline and select the inside edges of the sprockets to get the inside of the vase. Do the same selecting the outside edge of the sprockets for the outside of the vase.

Use Joint Push Pull to give the bottom of the pot thickness.

Use Fredo Scale Box Twisting to twist the vase. Twisted the sample 20 degrees.

One tip , Work BIG, the model is 4' tall, then scale down. Colored vase in front is a more realistic 12" tall.

Thanks David. Your correct the doors operate like a roll top desk. Only difference is they slide horizontal, operation and construction is basically the same. Surprisingly enough on the original pieces the doors slid real easy. They were pretty high quality stuff, solid teak. Wish I had them now. Chuck.

Knocked this out last night. In the style of several pieces my parents owned when I was growing up. Has a quiet elegance I think. Model was pretty quick to do. Rendered in Twilight, 08 Exterior setting. Let it run for 200 passes. About 23 minutes.

What Dave said, have used joint push pull to get thickness to small boat hulls after creating the shell with curviloft. Works great.

Dave, Thanks, I get the other stuff to do. Sometimes doesn't seem like there's enough hours does it ? Took the raw render into Gimp and ran the "Colorize" tool, played with the settings a little in there. Then tweaked Hue & Saturation levels a little. Chuck.

Thanks Mike. Tarpon's a tropical saltwater fish. Pretty prehistoric, mouth like a concrete bucket, no teeth. Actually eats pretty small stuff considering how big they can get. Monsters can push over 6' and 200 pounds. chuck.

Knocked out a Tarpon model today.

First pic is the model straight out of SU

Second pic , set up a little scene. Quick render in Twilight and then got a little "arty" in Gimp.