Hello there, I hope it is ok to post here, as long as I am still evaluating if I can achieve the desired skills in 3D modelling with shapr 3D. I did not yet switch to pro plan, I am a total beginner with 3D modelling, never have tried to model anything more than a cube with blender
Now shapr 3D looked so easy to me, that I have gathered the courage to give it a try.
So far I have spent around 3 days now, trying to build a kitchen knive from an image. So far it is not that bad I find, but I really could not solve to get the knifes grip rounded. I have really tried a lot.
From that point, it is really impressive how simple it is to model with shapr 3D.
The best results I achieved with sweeping a shape along the grips path. But somehow this is not very clean. I guess it is because my base sketch is not accurate enough.
Is there any advice how I can achieve to get the grips edges rounded up accurate? Without that messy results?
The resolution of a tool that you can apply with the dual-sided arrow are connected to the grid resolution you can see in the upper right corner. On the screenshot, the grid resolution is 50 mm which seems to be almost the same as the thickness of the handle. Therefore, the smallest step in the fillet radius may be somewhere around or even bigger than the thickness of the entire part.
Please give it a try zooming in, it will result in a finer grid and tool-step resolution.
Thatâs exactly what happens to me. When using the trackpad I just canât seem to drag the chamfer out accurately unless I zoom in.
In most cases itâs for the reason you stated regarding the grid resolution,
However, on occasion, even with the body depth larger than the grid resolution I experience issues.
Itâs usually because my fingers donât work well with the trackpad on my MacBook Air.
I almost always have my pen and surface connected and donât experience the same issues using the pen.
Whenever I come across this issue and donât wish to zoom in I just type the figure into the box instead.
What I still donât understand is about the other way I tried. When using the sweeping tool, it seems like all the side faces built from my sketches extrusion are somehow like uneven. And so the result from the sweep will be messy.
Isnât there a way to, letâs say, clean up sketched lines somehow, to have the extruded side faces smooth?
But I have another question regarding export files. I hope it is ok to post it here in the same thread.
When exporting as obj file, the model will be kind of microscopic. as I have modelled it in 1:1 with a length of 16cm, as an obj file it is 0,16 MM lenght.
Thatâs strange. STEP file is ok and 1:1 but obj not. Why?
But this should be the GH1001 which is overall 20cm, But the model I made, I did not adjust the sizes accurately. I used the diameter of the circles as reference. I already learned, to better use the overall length to use as size reference.
Thank you Steve, I took only the diameter of the rivets as the reference, and of course this isnât a good idea, as it isnât accurate enough, resulting in the loss of 3-4cm in the total length.
I think any length distance (like the one you guessed) would be better as an overall reference.
