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Modeling tubes and pipes - Blender Tutorial
From the course: Blender: Hard Surface Modeling
Modeling tubes and pipes
- [Instructor] Now let's begin adding a few of the extra details, like these pipes and tubes on the side and on the back of the vehicle. Once again, we can use the path tool to create these fairly easily. So, let's tumble around here, and let's go to the side view here, and let's take a look at these pipes in here. So, let's go ahead and create one of these. We'll create this one here, let's say. And we can use the path tool, convert it to polygons, and then select faces and extrude out to get some of these connections and parts that have different sizes and widths to them. So, I think what I'll do is just drop the cursor here by clicking, and then shift + a, and let's create, under curves, let's create a path. Now I'll spin it around, I'll press RZ90, and I'll scale it down, and we'll begin extruding this to get that basic shape. Now, I think I'll bring it right about in here, and then let's tumble around and bring it out to the side. So, let's bring it out here so it's kind of in…
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