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.
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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.
Resistor Collection
Building a parts library in Blender: 57 resistor configurations, 19 color-coded values in three lead shapes, with toggleable labels on one material.
Picnic Table
A weathered picnic table modeled from Home Depot product photos using fSpy for camera matching and overlapping UVs for sharp wood without huge textures.
Handscrew Clamp
A wooden handscrew clamp that pairs PBR materials with a low-poly mesh, skipping modeled threads to save render resources. On CGTrader.
A collection of knobs
Twelve knobs modeled in Blender and the trouble with fillets on subdivision-ready meshes: bad topology shows as artifacts once the modifier is added.
Air Pressure Regulator
An air pressure regulator for an industrial brake: modeled in SolidWorks, retopologized over the STL in Blender, with diffuse, metal, roughness and normal maps.
Pedestrian Crossing Sign
A crosswalk pedestrian sign with a Photoshop graphic and a quick Blender mesh, posted to CGTrader after finding nothing similar there.
Traffic Cone 3D Model from Photogrammetry
A traffic cone from 26 photos: Zephyr produced a 586,920 face scan, baked onto a simple Blender mesh in clean and dirty versions. Cycles render, on CGTrader.