My kids absolutely love "diggers" and as a 3D modeler I certainly appreciate them too. All the complex shapes, hard edges, bolts, hydraulics, tire treads, etc. It's a modelers playground and labyrinth rolled into one.
I'm going to start building a digger - a Caterpillar 434E specifically - as accurately and detailed as I can. The name of the game here is organization, perseverance, and efficiency because most of the shapes are not difficult to build. There's just. so. many. of. them. Which gave me an idea...
Why don't we build this thing together? For those interested in following the project, I'm hoping at least a few will participate by modeling certain pieces of the backhoe themselves to be submitted to me for review and incorporation into the final model.
Check out the Collaboration Forum thread for more info!
| Modeling Heavy Equipment: Backhoe (Part 2) | Fundamentals of 3D Mesh Modeling in Blender |
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[Q] Sounds great!
Projected schedule?
How many Parts, when, etc...
Great, Yes!!!
yah
I will do one of the screws on the seat cushion
yea impressive really
I am amazed how good a block out you can do in an hour and a half o.O
This is so exciting!
Basically that is just made up of hydraulic hose connections, some piston rams, rotating hinges, and Support structure for the amount of load transfer for the excavator bucket.
Shawn, I did mechanical drawing (same as technical drawing) in high school. It hugely helped me with mathematics. Mechanical drawing taught me theorems of circles, triangles, arcs, etc.