Car Tutorial Part 20 - Badges

Ed Ferguson, CascadiaDesignStudio.com



Badges:

Finally, we'll add a couple of badges. (Some cars don’t need no stinking badges, but ours does :)

The size is not important at this step as we will resize as needed when placing the badges on the car.

Draw a large circle and a smaller one that intersects. Use Array > Circular to create three evenly placed around the large circle. Select all four circles and Boolean > Merge. The result is the curve in yellow.



Draw a profile curve and Revolve it into a round button-shape badge.

Position the curve made above over the revolved badge and Boolean > Merge. Delete the unwanted piece and Fillet the remaining solid.





Make a copy for the front of the car and one for the rear. Resize / flatten as needed and rotate as needed to place the badges tangent to the curvature of the car’s body. Position so the badge slightly intersects the body.



I hope you have found this tutorial useful and will be inspired to make and share your own creations.

Cool!
Will be translated in French in some time if you are not against that ! :)

I must finish first the French site of the cool free renderer for SKetchutp Visualizer http://getvisualizer.com/
http://visualizervf.weebly.com/

Of course you can use it for Moi object as you have SKP or 3DS format export inside MOi! ;

That's an awesome tutorial - Thanks for sharing ED

Martin Spencer-Ford

Great tutorial, thanks for sharing, it's very interesting !

Ed!!!! This tutorial is absolutely magnificent!

It's quite a beautiful result.

And thanks for the tutorial plugs! ;-)

I'm going to go over this again slowly to feast upon the smaller nuances.

No video of some parts ?

Wow -very nice, thanks a lot

very great tutorial !

thanks you Ed

Marvelous tutorial. I could learn much much much from this.

Thank you very much!

Bravo, Ed! Thank you for the time and effort to put this together. I'm sure it will be a huge help to people.
Ron

Frenchy -

I have two GIF animations in Part 2 to show moving control points on the SubD cage, as I think this might be a new concept for some people who have not tried the SubD scripts. Everything else is straightforward MoI tools.

In general, I'm not a fan of video tutorials for CAD programs. It's often hard to see what tool is being selected, and if you want to follow along, you have to stop and re-wind constantly. I'd much rather have a detailed written set of instructions and images.

However, if you see an area that needs more detail explanation, I'm happy to expand the topic and add GIF animation if appropriate.

Ed Ferguson

take your time :)
I will have no problem to insert them after the end of the translation! :)

Wow Ed! Great stuff. I, too, will be going over this with a fine tooth comb to select the good bits! Thanks much for you kindness and willingness to share to this community. :-)

http://visualizervf.weebly.com/ done ;)
So I can begin your now! :)
http://moiscript.weebly.com/la-voiture-de-ed.html

Thanks very much Ed for producing this great tutorial!

- Michael

Thanks Michael and everyone else for your comments.

I did not start out with the intent to finish the car, much less write a tutorial. But the more it progressed, the more I wanted to see it through to completion.

The tutorial is a byproduct of my own note taking. My learning style is to document a new process as I go, and end up with a personal reference manual.

With multiple software apps and programming languages I've had to learn over years, and the fact that at age 63 my brain is full, keeping notes is a necessity :)

Ed Ferguson

That is a great job Ed,

By the way even at 63 your brain is not full we just get harder at remembering.

Taking for the step we do is the way to go.

congrats, it is well done.

Hi Ed,

Thanks again for the great tute.

I'm the same way. I may go weeks, even months before opening a program again, and I find that by creating tutorials it helps me not only to learn the program but also to relearn it as I go back and review the them.

I'll be 59 next week so I know where you're coming from with regard to the brain not being quite as sharp as it once was. :-)

Banner Ed..... righteous job!

Awesome Ed! just Awesome. What would be more Awesome is if you could PDF it.

Cheers