Blender Secrets - Making Holes in Cylinders with decent Quad Topology

Making holes in cylinders can be tough. How do you avoid weird lumps, bumps and other shading artifacts on a curved surface? This video shows 4 methods that will result in decent topology and a nice smooth surface.
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[@kahzhoylow4352]

Is it just me or it is just unnecessarily complicated to create holes in Blender?

[@Rnd_rkus]

Its the cost of good topology

[@kentozapater8972]

It's easy, the tough part is making a clean topology by making holes

[@Exe3D]

Undefeated

[@abulak3477]

3:19
4:53

[@-CornDawg]

None of these methods are useful in real situations.

[@Destroyanad]

There are many applications. An example is when i was modeling an M4A1. I wanted the holes on the handguard, but ended up not adding them bc i didnt know how to. i.imgur.com/3P9STy5.png

[@geraltfromrivia6273]

cause u can have some pinches?

[@stovepipe]

At 0:38, in Blender 4.1 it's no longer a checkbox but a different setting underneath the "Snap to" setting; Check the "Snap individual elements to: face project" instead of only "face" to get the same result.

[@Lemonraine26]

THANK YOU

[@igorzkoppt]

Unrelated rant, but I'm so fed up of youtube adding this thick video title on the top when pausing a video.... And no option to remove this useless stuff. Like to spare you the immense effort to go back into window mode the rare times you need to re-check the video title, they ruin the video itself... WTF is going on in their heads?
I am now downloading tutorial videos first and watch them later on VLC or else, in order to just see the menus on the top. Google interfaces, seriously....

[@mares164]

I just spent my whole morning doing just that,this video would have been so useful 6 hours ago

[@JoyaMermeo]

Same!!

[@Scarlov87]

In the "alt+J" function you can also increase the angle in both shape and face options to get rid of those triangles, that way you don't have to selectem manually

[@ElenaBG3]

I know another method:
When you don't know how to make a hole, you Punch the monitor.

[@ex-secular-4996]

Good work sir 🚩🙏🙏🇮🇳

[@darrennew8211]

I must admit, every one of these is easier than what I struggle with. :-)

[@yass_queeen_engery]

You can also get a circle using a single vertex.
1. on edit mode go to vertex selection
2.Control+ shift + B to bevel vertices
3. Add as many segments as you need segments to have a circle
(Don't forget to apply scale before doing all of the above)

[@sergkaskalov3983]

no, the mold will be broken.

[@jamalnazeer7935]

Thank you so much sir it's really helpful tips please keep it up.

[@SathishRajNannam]

Very Nice! Thank you!!

[@Ziggyzaggy300]

Can you please post the file that you made? I've been trying for an hour and i can't get it to work.

[@Y_modabaaaaaa]

Oh, the last one it´s magic :O

[@7ruthVVizard]

Best vid on youtube for making holes in curved surfaces, also really like the topology collection idea, that's OP

[@gangger89]

thx - as always really valuable content

[@michaelleachim6262]

Awesome use of Asset-Browser!

[@boriskourt]

This is perfect. Thanks for another good explanation!

[@RawfunRahman]

I just realised im not subscribed 😭

[@kenwong5807]

3:25 where can i download this asset file ?

[@RS-HAIR]

Perfect ❤️

[@positv_]

If you want you can use knife tool to

[@kadabra8]

Класний спосіб) дякую за відео

[@echerif_3d]

Amazing as always 👏👏👏

[@kenzietownsend6644]

Yes! This is good.

[@dreamerflow6483]

Nice tips! Thank you

[@sideeffectsstudios]

Love this tutorial 👌

[@PoMkAc27]

Thank you for your videos

[@Nubs2112Official]

hes making cheese @ 5:40

[@CarlooJota]

Good video

[@shantanu83]

Best video

[@Tudemir3]

Thank You

[@claudiaatteveld4971]

Have been busy with this for over more then 2 hours, starting over and over again. Not working correctly for me.

[@janalbrecht1665]

what am i missing? first method i press G and nope, no snapping of circle vertices whatsoever, it just activates move. i wanted to use that method instead of the others because it allows precise dimensions of the created hole. update: you have to be in the ortogonal view of the projection to apply it. duh. sorry. i am a noob. i bought the book, and will not post again until i am halfway through. promised.

[@pevlindir]

last one is goated 🔥

[@ethanleung4091]

How would you add an array of cylinders on a curved object while keeping each cylinder perpendicular to the surface?

[@SewerTapes]

For the longest time, I've been trying to make a concrete pipe interior. Specifically, a vertical cylinder shaft with a smaller perpendicular cylinder tunnel intersection. It always looked janky until today, with the help of method 2. Now I just need to learn how to properly unwrap it for texturing. Thank you for getting me closer to my goal.

[@mootz2199]

I made the plane with holes by following instruction at 5:03 and it worked great. however I was unable to do anything with this model after; cut out a certain part, color etc

[@kirayoshikage1735]

thank you man, I was trying to make holes in the supressor of my gun but was haaving a hard time doing,really helped me out man thx

[@channelname8623]

3:30 anyone know how to do this? I had no idea you could save "swatches?" of geometry as an asset.

[@AFLAutoBlendz3DCarCreations]

Good work

[@apieceoftoast768]

Precies wat ik nodig had!

[@TW-rd5ub]

I think you need to emphasise how important the position + scale of the circle is so that you can end up with quads.

[@wmp3920]

Perfect material !!! Thank you i

[@ped-away-g1396]

the last one is very interesting. could be useful for a lot of things.

[@allaze-eroler]

one thing that is missing in that video: geometry nodes!

[@talkingSkunk]

Amazing! Thank you.

[@SviatoslavPetrov]

Thanks a lot! Really helpful tip

[@Eeevonn]

meanwhile i just use bool tool

[@bitlong4669]

I bought the book… it’s,like blender modelling bible. Thank you for making it.

[@BlenderSecrets]

Thank you!

[@RetArm]

I'm getting that e-Book as soon as I can afford it. If it's even close to all the tutorials you post on RUclips. I know I'll love it.

[@BlenderSecrets]

Thanks a lot! I’m sure you’ll like the book, I put (and continue to put) a lot of effort into it.

[@macnavi]

I need to watch this every day to remember it when I need it. Brilliant!

[@thomas7726]

haha I understand!

[@maisen7313]

Your are a beast

[@thaylanoliscovicz9051]

Thanks a lot!

[@twelvegrain1111]

This is gold! Thank you!

[@theforest8882]

Thanks

[@qtheplatypus]

Why wouldn’t you use booleans?

[@ChristinaMcKay]

You could, but the topology could be a horrible mess you have to clean up

[@SaberTail]

Please state what you're doing instead of listing hotkeys. I and many others use the industry standard bindings instead of the idiosyncratic Blender ones.