Safety Barrier
A yellow industrial safety barrier modeled from curves in Blender with a procedural paint material, made for crowded industrial scenes. On CGTrader.
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Photogrammetry for Reverse Engineering Machines
Why a photo scan comes first when reverse engineering old equipment, the tape measure mistake that taught the lesson, and a scanned Size 315 fluid drive.
Luggage Cart
A hotel luggage cart modeled in Blender as a more useful companion to the platform truck. Available on CGTrader.
Platform Truck
Back to Blender modeling after a break: a hardware-store platform truck, now on CGTrader.
Hotel Nightstand
A nightstand, lamp and alarm clock modeled on a laptop during a power plant night shift, plus how the Loop Tools loft and twist function works. On CGTrader.
Pressure Gauge
A pressure gauge modeled in SolidWorks, then rebuilt from scratch in Blender because SolidWorks conversions give triangulated meshes with bad face rings.
Residential Oil Tank
A low-poly 275 gallon Granby vertical oil tank modeled in Blender 2.9, with notes on the fill, vent and gauge ports. On CGTrader.
Dirty Plastic Bottle
A grimy hydraulic oil jug from the machine shop, photo-scanned in Zephyr, shrink-wrapped to a low-poly mesh in Blender and texture-painted. On CGTrader.
3D Models in Microsoft Office
Export a Blender model as GLB and insert it into Word, Excel or PowerPoint with Insert, 3D Models, This Device. Rotate, scale and light it inside the document.
Blender Tutorial: How to Model a Knurled Cylinder
Model a knurled cylinder in Blender 2.8 in six steps: 60-vertex cylinder, 24 loop cuts, un-subdivide, extrude individual faces, scale from individual origins.