Simviation Forum - Bending a cylinder

Sep 3^rd, 2004 at 9:21pm

hsvfan Offline
Colonel
I love YaBB 1G - SP1!
Wellington, New Zealand

Gender:
Posts: 262

Hi all,
What is the best way to put a couple of sharp bends in a cylinder and still keep the cylinder symmetrical .
I am using gmax to make an aircraft control stick. I have tried a couple of ways But the cylinder starts to flatten out when I start to bend the cylinder to much.

cheers

Rhys

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #1 - Sep 3^rd, 2004 at 10:23pm

FSEdge Offline
Colonel
Texas

Posts: 203

When you say sharp bend, are you talking 90 degrees or sharper?

FSEdge

FSAlpha

&&&&

Gmax Forum

&&&&

Gmax Videos

&&&&

Building a Nosecone video

&&&&

Extrude Animation Video

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #2 - Sep 3^rd, 2004 at 10:40pm

hsvfan Offline
Colonel
I love YaBB 1G - SP1!
Wellington, New Zealand

Gender:
Posts: 262

Hi FSEdge,
I want to put a 90 degree bend on the cylinder and know the best way to also do sharper bends

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #3 - Sep 3^rd, 2004 at 10:43pm

Stratobat Offline
Colonel
To fly... Or not to fly?

Posts: 1165

I'm an extreme newbie when it comes to Gmax, but have you tried the Bend Modifier and the Select & Rotate tools?

Regards,
Stratobat

&&&&'If the literal sense makes good sense, seek no other sense lest you come up with nonsense'

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #4 - Sep 3^rd, 2004 at 11:17pm

hsvfan Offline
Colonel
I love YaBB 1G - SP1!
Wellington, New Zealand

Gender:
Posts: 262

Hi Stratobat,
I have tried the bend modifier but when I selected the part of the cylinder I wanted to bend, if I bent it to far it would lose its symmetrical shape and start to flatten out. It also did the same thing when I went to select.

cheers

Rhys

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #5 - Sep 3^rd, 2004 at 11:36pm

FSEdge Offline
Colonel
Texas

Posts: 203

If you want to go for the sharp Right Angle 90-degree bend, select the polygons where you want the bend to occur. Use the Slice tool set on a 45-degree angle and slice. Detach half of the cylinder to element and rotate as needed to align the two halves back again and weld the vertices.

If you want a 90-degree elbow use the Bend modifier. The image above show a bend set to 90 degrees on all of the green objects. The numbers of segments will determine how well the bend is produced.

FSEdge

FSAlpha

&&&&

Gmax Forum

&&&&

Gmax Videos

&&&&

Building a Nosecone video

&&&&

Extrude Animation Video

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #6 - Sep 3^rd, 2004 at 11:40pm

hsvfan Offline
Colonel
I love YaBB 1G - SP1!
Wellington, New Zealand

Gender:
Posts: 262

Thanks FSEdge ,thats just what I was after

Cheers

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #7 - Sep 3^rd, 2004 at 11:44pm

FSEdge Offline
Colonel
Texas

Posts: 203

Your welcome!! Grin

FSEdge

FSAlpha

&&&&

Gmax Forum

&&&&

Gmax Videos

&&&&

Building a Nosecone video

&&&&

Extrude Animation Video

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #8 - Sep 4^th, 2004 at 12:16am

Stratobat Offline
Colonel
To fly... Or not to fly?

Posts: 1165

Learnt something new, thanks Edge

Regards,
Stratobat

&&&&'If the literal sense makes good sense, seek no other sense lest you come up with nonsense'

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #9 - Sep 4^th, 2004 at 10:52am

Brett_Henderson Ex Member
EVERY OUTER MARKER SHOULD
BE AN NDB

Gender:

If you really take the time to come at a problem from all the angles (no pun intended).. for freeware, Gmax is an incredibly powerful design tool. I can't get bored with it. And like this thread... sharing and learning tricks and techniques is half the fun.

Back to top

IP Logged

	Search the archive: