I am trying to make this cave surface here, but struggling to understand how. I initially thought to make a cube, and then extrude at an angle to carve those inward spaces…but I couldn’t. Then I thought to create some triangles at an angle and the substract (see loom)…but also struggling.
Any suggestion?
You can scale the top of a cube to .001 or make your triangle and move the edge down to nothing using the move tool? The subtract it from the panel?
Assuming that the triangles are solid wood of maybe .75in with 8in squares, you can do the following:
(sorry no images or video, just steps)
- Sketch an isosceles triangle with the long side ~8in.
- Extrude the triangle to .75in
- Create an offset plane with 0 offset on each of the 3 rectangular faces.
- Rotate extrusion 10 degrees in either direction with the gizmo centered on the long rectangular face.
- Select a rectangular face and replace face to the closest of the 3 planes. Do this for each of the rectangular faces.
- Circular Pattern the extrusion qty 3x, 270degrees rotated with the gizmo at the midpoint of the thickness edge at the ~90 degree corner (it’s no longer 90 b/c of the tilt…).
There are other ways to do this but this will likely model the traditional construction.
