From the course: Modo Product Visualization: Shoe Modeling

Bridging the gaps - MODO Tutorial

From the course: Modo Product Visualization: Shoe Modeling

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Bridging the gaps

- [Instructor] So now that I've created the initial geometry for these laces, I need to start connecting everything up going through the eyelets. So I'm going to switch out of the topology tools back to the regular modern tools, and that's because I don't want to have a background constraint active for this part of the process. And then I'm going to zoom in really close onto the shoe so that I can see. I need to do a bit more clearly. I set my action center to local and switching to edges mode. Then I'll select this edge and hit the Z key to activate the edge extend tool to click once in the viewport to activate the tool and I'm going to pull out a new edge like, so. And then I hit the W key to switch to the Move Tool, and let's zoom in a little bit more and take a closer look. And I'll just fine tune the position of that edge I want it to curve. So, it's just overlapping the islet and let's also move it so it doesn't actually penetrate it. And with select through active, I can also tweak the edge behind it, just so we don't have that sharp angle. Then I'll reselect the edge at the front and I'm going to hit the E key to switch to the rotation tool. And I'm just going to rotate it very slightly so that it tilts inwards facing the islet. And that just means that we'll be able to get a nice curve when we bridge this edge with a strip on the other side. So with that done, I'm going to hit cue to drop the rotation tool and I'm going to select this edge here. And I'm going to hit Z once again to activate the edge extend tool. Let's click once in the view port to activate the tool. Drag out on the red arrow to put out a new edge. To also make sure it doesn't penetrate the islet let's just place it where I want. And once I'm happy with the position I switch to the rotation tool by pressing E and just tilt that inwards very slightly. Once I'm happy, I cue to drop the tool. Then holding shift, I'm going to select the other edge so that both the edges is selected and I'm going to run the bridge tool. So I'm going to click on the view port to activate the bridge tool and I need to fine tune the number of segments and the tension so I get the right curve. So I'm going to leave the number of segments at three. And just as with previous bridges I can control the extent of this curve by either increasing or decreasing the amount of tension. So once I'm happy with the results, I'm going to hit cue to drop the bridge tool, then I'm going to select this edge at the end, activate the move tool. And I'm going to push that edge down so that it's inside the islet. And with that done, I've dropped the tool. And then it's simply a case of repeating this exact process over the remaining islets and loops that goes through them. So once again, I'm going to pause the video while I complete this process.

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