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[...]... instinctive it is extremely fast I have timed myself and from clicking the Blender icon on my desktop to load blender, to reaching this stage takes less than two minute’s This is about the same amount of time it takes just to load the CAD package on my works CAD machine Blender - Precision Modelling Guide By: Robert Burke www.rab3d.com - 20 - Modelling a 608 Bearing Part-2 Inner and Outer Race With the corner... be comfortable with Blenders way of modelling This next part looks at positioning the V-roller's alongside other components and designing a casting around them The casting will form the X-axis of my CNC router Design Steps for a Casting Part 1 - Laying out the components Part 2 - Initial casting design Part 3 - Support Brackets Part 4 - Completing the casting Blender - Precision Modelling Guide By:... haven't already done so press Ctrl-W and save your work Part 4 modelling the cage becomes a little trickier but as you get used to panning, rotating and zooming the view, selection of vertices and constructing models becomes a little easier to achieve Blender - Precision Modelling Guide By: Robert Burke www.rab3d.com - 34 - 608 Bearing Part-4 Modelling the Bearing Cage When we inserted the UVsphere that... are no longer needed so press X and delete Vertices Blender - Precision Modelling Guide By: Robert Burke www.rab3d.com - 16 - Select the two bottom vertices Shift-RMB and press F (face) to add an edge between them We have now created the reference geometry to construct the detailed cross section of the inner and outer race relative to the centre axis Blender has the ability to show the length of any... dragging can do this In the Mesh Tools 1 panel (2) select Edge Length and the view will display the length of any selected edge Blender - Precision Modelling Guide By: Robert Burke www.rab3d.com - 17 - The bearing has a 0.6mm fillet on the edge of the inner and outer race As Blender is not primarily a CAD program it doesn't yet have a dedicated fillet tool However it is both quick and simple to add a... fade from yellow selected end to black deselected end Edit Mode - Wire View Cube (1) All vertices selected Cube (2) No vertices selected Cube (3) One vertex selected Blender - Precision Modelling Guide By: Robert Burke www.rab3d.com - 11 - Blender has a wealth of tools that allow you to model almost anything and these will be described in the following tutorials If you are new to 3D, work through the... but they aren't yet connected to the first set of vertices Blender - Precision Modelling Guide By: Robert Burke www.rab3d.com - 27 - To join these press A twice to select all the vertices then W to bring up the Specials menu, from this select Remove Doubles, which will merge any vertices that are sitting on top of each other That's it for modelling the inner and outer race Press Tab to go into Object... one of Blenders pre-set objects, the UV Sphere The sphere is constructed from a series of latitudinal and longitudinal edges with poles at the top and bottom We will be using the geometry from the sphere to construct the bearing cage and it is important that it is oriented correctly When we insert the sphere we need one of the poles to be pointing towards the bearing centre Blender - Precision Modelling. .. radius of 1.975 and click OK The UVsphere will now be inserted at the correct size Its still good to understand how to calculate a scale factor, as it will be needed in many other modelling situations Blender - Precision Modelling Guide By: Robert Burke www.rab3d.com - 32 - The Object Centre for the ball is currently central to the UV Sphere and it would be much more useful if it was positioned central... www.rab3d.com - 12 - Modelling a 608 Bearing Part-1 Reference Geometry To introduce you to Blenders modelling tools I will walk through the process of designing a 608 Bearing, the type used in skateboards and in-line skates The geometry from the bearings will later be used in the design of the other components and castings I will use this tutorial to introduce some of the basic modelling techniques . important to the desired outcome. Blender - Precision Modelling Guide By: Robert Burke www.rab3d.com - 7 - Blender - Precision Modelling Guide By: Robert Burke. selected. Cube (3) One vertex selected Blender - Precision Modelling Guide By: Robert Burke www.rab3d.com - 11 - Modelling in Blender Blender has a wealth of tools