Hotel Nightstand
With COVID-19 making an insane world crazier, I haven’t had to travel for work in a while. Almost a year after lock-downs, I had my first onsite trip to a…
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Pressure Gauge
I modeled it trying to keep a balance between lo-poly, software compatibility and realism. I frequently create my models by drawing them in Solidworks and…
Residential Oil Tank
My day job has me designing an oil recovery system for a hydraulic coupling. It’s a complex oil system that uses a residential oil tank. I was surprised to…
Dirty Plastic Bottle
By day, I work in a machine shop where we have tons of items: Some common, some uncommon, but all dirty. Today’s model is a yellow container we used to…
3D Models in Microsoft Office
My latest model of an Ocean City Beach Patrol lifeguard chair was created in Blender and exported as a GLB file. The GLB files can be imported into…
Blender Tutorial: How to Model a Knurled Cylinder
Knobs have knurls. A knurl is that hatch pattern found on cylindrical surfaces. They are easy to create on a lathe and, believe it or not, it is easy to…
Resistor Collection
Wasting time is such a waste (duh). Once you have modeled an object, it is great to have a library of parts. The question is…how do you organize them in a…
Picnic Table
3D models can be from your imagination or from real world items. Today’s model is from the real world.
Handscrew Clamp
My latest model is an attempt to combine PBR materials with a low poly model. The handscrew clamp has simple geometry and you can save a lot of computing…
A collection of knobs
I’ve been working on this collection of knobs for a while. I thought it would be simple. But like most things…simple is rare. I ran into difficulties…