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Yeah, that sucks. Unfortunately, there is nothing I can do about it, as all my monitors are widescreen 4k 2.38/1, and fonts are at their limits: just a bit more and input fields will crop the data thanks to devs inability to make them responsive.

Good to know!

Thank you! Welcome aboard

My pleasure!

Awesome! You are very welcome! As for lighting and rendering, - it is Blender with Cycles and compositing in PS with Cryptomatte. I have some plans to make a separate course about tessellation and rendering CAD data for visualization and mesh batching process for gaming industry, but without specifics yet. Stay tuned!)

Hey! thank you and best of luck with application! As for suggestions, - I am not sure that can help you as I do not search for this content myself. The only advice I can give you is to search for captured academic lectures and content form the people within the industry (like me, learn surfacing, 3d design academy and other cad sculptors). Try Andreas Hopf's records from Lund university. And do not shy of reading official technical documentation, - unbiased and condensed library of terms and functions. It will help you a lot in your journey. Google for "Alias docs". And do not learn from wannabes, they taught you shit.

@@AGGraphics wow I appreciate your swift response! I'm grateful for your advice and Andrea's Hopfs videos seem really promising, however I'm a bit confused in that it seems like he uses some plug ins? For example in one of his videos he uses a tool called "Phull" to flatten cvs in a certain axis however I cannot find that 😅 Also sorry - would you mind if I ever messaged you on Instagram for support in case I get very stuck?

@@AGGraphics I appreciate your response so much! Your generosity in spreading knowledge is a breath of fresh air when it comes to this incredibly gatekept program lol. I hope that one day when I've established a career in the industry, I'll be able to cite people like you for providing the stepping stones for my journey! Take care and please continue with your class A content! Also sorry one more thing - would you mind if I ever messaged you on Instagram, in case I hit some sort of road block with the program?

Thank you! Sure, go for it. I can't guarantee that I will answer immediately, I will do it eventually

Welcome!

Hey! Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, Alias is not a Blender, and all the hotkeys are custom. Thus, mine will not work for you. If you want to set your alias the right way, - I have a video about it: ruclips.net/video/AQvXOYmalvE/видео.htmlsi=ztG-yMPTSokA5lnc Hope that helps!

Glad you like it!

You are most welcome man!

thank you! yeah, I understand. I will change the scale for the curves and interface for the future videos.

@@AGGraphics Hi! I just wanted to thank you. Your RUclips tutorials have been incredibly helpful for me, especially with getting used to Alias and setting up hotkeys. I found Alias challenging to start with because of its strange navigation, but your hotkey tutorial really made a difference. By the way, your renders are amazing! Do you use Cycles for those? It would be great if you could make some rendering tutorials in the future.

Hi! I am glad you got curious! You can align curvature to flat. And you should. Remember: there is no such thing as no curvature for a vector (or its rational b-spline), it is a curvature of 0. And no, you can measure g3. you can measure g4, g5, g100 000, g infinity. It just makes no practical usage, thus there is no tool in alias to do that. More than 10 years, why? Y-fillet example is tiny indeed. But watches, for example, are tiny too. In consumer electronics .5 mm chordal length fillets is pretty common. Standard tolerance for cnc in industry is around .2mm. You are from California, right? so it will be .008 inches. Regardless, you can scale this example to automotive and beyond as a Brep or polysurface. You can use the same principal and scale it to Iowa class battleship. It is a CAD data afterall, NURBS surfaces. There is no mystery, just a basic trigonometry and arithmetic's you should learn in school. If you are from automotive, - it is your headache to meet the desired requirements for safety margins: smartphones and monitors are rarely smashing you with 100j of force ^)

Allright) will do in the future

You are very welcome!

Thank you! stay tuned

Hey! No, you did everything right. There will be a deviation between rational b-spline (your curve) and a squared or railed surface. That was an example why they will not fit and why you need to use profile tool instead. Just watch till the end) And as for visual deviation here and in general please keep in mind that tessellation quality is in effect, as well as your overall tolerance. If your inspect tools shows you no deviation, but you still see it visually, it is because 2 things: either your positional tolerance in construction options is not tight enough, or your tessellation quality is too low. I assume that you use the same tolerances as mine, so it must be your tessellation quality. You can change it in the properties of a default shader that called "mulCol" ("diagnostic shade" window, "global settings" tab)

@AGGraphics First of all I'm sorry about for late response Sir. After I've finished this part, as you said, I realised better what the problem was. By the way, yes I'm always using the same tolerances as yours. Thanks for the detailed explanation Sir 🙏

@@borazeytunlu963 you are very welcome!

Thanks, will do! Stay tuned!

Glad to hear, good job! I will do more complex models in the future on this channel, so stay tuned and thank you!

@@AGGraphics I'm looking forward your the other magnificant tutorials and your brilliant solutions to the complex models in advance🤓🙏

Okay Sir, somehow it's working now. I don't know how it works, but I did the same things I did yesterday.

Panel gap is a pretty unstable tool, you never know will it work or not. If yes, - thats great, you made yourself a shortcut. If not, - you just build it manually. So it is not about you did something wrong, its about Alias that let you down.

I got it Sir, I'm so happy to hear that because I thought it happens because of my lack of talent. Thanks a lot for illuminating me 😅

You are very welcome! I am a concept designer and a cad sculptor for consumer electronics. Phones, laptops, headphones, remotes, keyboards and so on and so forth. I never worked in automotive and probably never will be: is a closed community for a lucky few in US, China, Germany, Korea, Japan and France. Everybody else plays outside)

@@AGGraphics Very interesting ! I am a "jack of all trade" kind of creator, but regarding 3D modeling I started with polygonal years ago and now in love with CAD (Fusion and OnShape) but for few years I'm impressed and intersted by surface modeling in Alias but beside some quick test I didn't did anything with it. But would love to learn it more seriously and really use it. Are you freelance or work inhouse for a product design agency ? Finding a way to use Alias but not in the automotive indusry is cool btw ^^ (even if I'm french I don't think I will be able to work in this field one day, seems gatekeeped ^^)

Indeed. A gatekeep is a good word for it. Good attitude though, keep on keeping on! I am both: Inhouse and a contractor. That is a nature of the projects: you go in for half a year, you did your job, you bail out. That is the only way if you are working for foreign companies (not in the domestic market). And as for Alias, it is widespread in consumer electronics. Xiaomi, Apple, Samsung, Cisco, JBL, Sony, Wacom and many others working with Alias or it rivals, - ICEM or NX. Sometimes even gun manufacturers, like Smith&Wesson or Ruger. And studios make their decision based on the budget: if you do not have enough income, - alias or NX will be too expensive + you need something for a B-side like CATIA, and you forced to switch for more generalized CAS modeling systems like Rhino or Solidworks. They are great tools too, but not designed to build a-class. Rhino has grasshopper built in though. We use it instead of Autodesk's Dynamo. So, you mix and match anyway.

@@AGGraphics thanks for all the explaination. I could see myself diving more into Alias (in addition to Fusion or Onshape) and get clients missions in which I only have to 3D model stuff ^^ but even if I keep learning Alias I have no idea where to start get works in these kind of fields ^^ Anyway, you make the best Alias video I found so far and I am binge watching them ^^ thanks

You just keep doing what you are doing. Who know where you will be in a couple of years) And thanks, stay tuned!

Thank you very much! Stay tuned!

Glad it helped! As for the rectangle attributes, - mine are present in 2025.0, but title is missing. So yeah, I assume it is a bug

@@AGGraphics that's it! the title is missing. thanks so much and please keep going your update! subscribed and thumb up!

Pleasure!

You're welcome!

So nice of you) Check it though, it is quite important!

@@AGGraphics You're welcome Sir, Of course Sir, I'm going to check it 🫡🙏🏻

@@AGGraphics You're welcome. Of course Sir, I'm going to check it out

Eventually we will get there, but as these lessons are for newbies, some ground must be covered first, mostly how to basics. It will be hard for you to model a body panel if you struggle with y-fillets (I will cover them soon) or set you fittings in construction options the wrong way. But if you feel that you can do it now and knows enough, - I can suggest you check Soochans 3d design academy channel, he does cars: www.youtube.com/@3DDesignAcademy

@@AGGraphics I'll wait for your tutorials, I don't like the voice of a man who is often in their tutorials on the Soochans 3d design academy channel, plus they're only interested in money and they're expensive. Cheers bro!

I believe the only voice that can be legitimately called ugly is my own) But hey, stay tuned! we will get there eventually)

My pleasure!

You are very welcome!

Pleasure is mine. As for the knot spacing, - noted. I will do a video about it

they are ALL full of bugs, let's face it. But new UI is objectively better, so I see no reason to switch back

You are welcome! stay tuned!

My pleasure! stay tuned!

Many thanks! stay tuned for more) I do not have any patreon, and I am not doing it for money. I am doing it from compassion and empathy: I remember myself 12 years ago, outside of the industry, alone, with 0 info on the internet and struggling to fillet a simple cube. I know how challenging it is.

@@AGGraphics I'm so grateful to hear that because I'm still student too and I was struggling to learn Alias until Alias tutorials became wide spread in RUclips. There are very few people who know Alias in our country and students can't afford courses easily which are sold in foreign currency because of our currency worthless. I'm sure that everybody who come across your tutorials will be grateful for you.

​@@borazeytunlu963 True. If you are living outside EU, US, South Korea or China, - you can rely mostly on your own passion to get into the industry. But it is possible. Keep on keeping on!

@@AGGraphics Yes sir you're definitely right. If a person has enough passion many things are likely to happen. So we must keep going on and on. Thanks for the motivation you gave us.

Thank you! As for the alias 2023 version, - you should not worry about that. Except a few bells and whistles (like UI overhaul), alias is still alias, and all the major features are decade old. thus, you can follow lessons on my channel or any other with confidence. And when you decide to update - just download it from official website, educational license (learning edition) is free

@@AGGraphics Ok Sir thanks for the statemennt. Btw do you have any plan for modelling of any car in Alias. To show us what are your methods to model a car. To be honest though I have knowledge how create surfaces I'm afraid of to start modelling a car. How can I overcome this fear 😅🙏

@@borazeytunlu963 I have no plans to model cars step-by-step for now, fundamentals must come first. And I can't tell you how to overcome your concerns but can suggest you check Soochan Lee's channel - 3d design academy ( www.youtube.com/@3DDesignAcademy ). He is from automotive and make car modeling tutorials. From my point of view, - pretty professional ones.

@@AGGraphics Okay Sir I got it thanks for the suggestions

@@borazeytunlu963 you are welcome!

You are very welcome!

Ok sir I found it in your other tutorial, segments:4, degree:3, spans:1 right?

@@borazeytunlu963 hey! yes, it is 4 segments, 3 degrees and 1 span non-periodic RATIONAL circle. Please note that if your circle in not rational, 3 degrees for a segment will not be enough to make circle circular, you will have a pretty big deviation. To battle that open your construction options, scroll down and activate "rational flags" checkbox BEFORE making a circle. Alternatively, bring more degrees for each segment: sweet spot is 6 degrees per segment (4 segments, 1 span) for non-rational circles. If you want to learn more about it, - check my audi bolt nut cap lesson, - I have a full explanation of the circles in Alias there: ruclips.net/video/Qb6ceN3Ht0M/видео.html

Ok Sir, thanks a lot your detailed explanation, btw your tutorials are very helpful to learn A-Class modeling thanks for this too. 🙏

Yes, it will be next so stay tuned!

All the footage is 4k man. Probably you are watching from the smartphone or RUclips just decides that 480p is good enough for you for some reason. Please check the settings of the video, - there is 4k option.

@@AGGraphics True its little better now. I watched at 1080 but it would be even better if you could still enlarge the fonts a bit more in alias. I'm i watching at my desktop computer with a big screen.

@@LeafCover right, ok. I will consider that

Thank you! I will, stay tuned!

Thank you! As for continuity, - do not stress to much about it. Try to make the rail surface smaller. If that does not work, - try to make rail only positional, and then edge align to g2 with vector constrain to Z axis or normal direction. Should do the trick. If you get dev.1 error after that, - check my correlated video about the topic: ruclips.net/video/jwdTtefeh4c/видео.html and check diagnostic shading. I believe you will not see any discrepancy in the connection.

i also think you need to explain hotkeys you use to make your work more effecient

@Occultstudios Good idea, I will. As for your question, - you need to open your clutch menu editor (preferences> marking menus > marking menus editor). A window with default marking menu will open up. delete all the garbage, open the tool you want, for example the "mirror object tool" (edit > duplicate > mirror). set the proper parameters (axis) and then literally drag it title from the menu straight to the free space in the marking menu page. Do not forget to save a profile.

Thanks! stay tuned!

pleasure!

Thank you!

you are welcome!

because not only the perfect diameter is out goal, but the perfect surfaces. by perfect I mean perfect, with perfect math description, without any possible deviations, even the smallest ones your tolerance settings can't catch. On top of that, we are talking a-class, and loops (revolves and profiles) under the rational flags are a must in that regard. But if you wander, can you get away with 6 deg segments in your model, - you can. it all comes to the final quality you, your engineers and client are looking for. If it will be a cheap pvc or lde molded case, or a wheel for Thomas the train toy or some shit - you rarely should bother. And as a final note, - rational flags in current lesson does not make things more complex, it is actually quite the opposite, you will save a lot of time later, on a filleting stages.

@@AGGraphics you will get the perfect math description with single span nurbs /bezier curves and surfaces, no deviation in tolerance either. and rational flags usually cause KO surface importing into catia. non rational flag+ 4 segments with 6deg will always give perfect circle,radius, revolve, right? maybe i'm not getting it. i'll follow your series and check it out. keep up the good work.

​@@akaAlias sadly you can't get the perfect math description for conics (circles) without rational flags. As I said in the lesson, non-rational geometry is a sum of polynomials. And polynomials, if you remember from math classes, can be linear, quadratic or cubic, and can describe a conic shape, but not spot-on. Rational flags, on the other hand, and a geometry built from it, is a ratio of sums of polynomials, or rational function. That will be a perfect description. I also mentioned the reasons why it is not turned on by default, and one of them, - is a downstream cad software. Catia is considered as one and does not operate with a weighted cvs and rational geometry in general. when you use 6 deg non-periodic, non-rational circles, - you can get close. sometimes so close, that most of it will be spot-on, maybe deviates to .0001 or something on the end points. Sometimes alias can even confirm, at least for the curves, that it is spot on. or some of the surfaces will be spot-on, and some of them will have a .0001 dev. Even Alias manual suggest you do go this way. But, in reality, they are not spot-on. Sometimes it does not matter, sometimes it does matter. I prefer not to be surprised in the middle of the project that non-rational flag geometry gives me issues when engineers said it should be perfect. As for Catia, yes, it is a problem. we solve it by stitching the model to the slightly lower tolerance, breaking the rationality, and export the stitch as. step for creating a B-side. and then we bring it back to alias and clean the issues, if they occur, manually. should you use rational flags all the time? no. sometimes it will work against you, sometimes it is very beneficial, like in the current lesson. If you want to build this bolt cap without rational flags, - I encourage you to try and compare the results and the process. at the end of the day, this is a learning project, designed to show you the benefits of rational flags not a lot of newcomers knows yet. So, give it a try and then make a decision. new lessons are coming up next week. and thank you for the question, it a good one.

Thank you! Concept is really different in comparison to solid body modeling, but in practice fusion 360 is really handy for the B-side of the model. In practice this is how everything built: surfacing for A-side (consumer side), solid body for B-side (internal parts). So, keep your pencils sharp). And stay tuned, new lessons will be in a month or so.

if I may suggest, I would love to see a video in which you explain your Alias navigation setup and shortcuts. You seems to have a lot of them so they are probably nicely optimized ^^@@alexandergolubev6358

@@SylvainKlein Will do!