Modeling a bowl of cereal
Smooth modeling tools are very useful for creating intricate shapes that would otherwise not be possible to make with regular primitive parts. In the following recipe, we will examine how to efficiently turn a sphere part into a bowl, and then we will use cylinder parts to fill the bowl with milk and create our pieces of cereal to fill the bowl with.
How to do it…
We will first create the bowl by negating a slightly smaller sphere inside of itself and using a square negated part, running through the middle of the sphere, to cut open the top, giving us the shape of our bowl. Then, we will place a cylindrical part representing the milk inside the bowl, scaling it to fit, and then we will create looped bits of cereal to fill the bowl with. To do this, follow these steps:
- Insert a sphere part onto the baseplate where you want to build your bowl.
- Rescale the sphere to make it larger and easier to work with, to a size such as
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