You can streamline this a bit by creating a tangent plane on the front of the cylinder and then draw a circle on it and use the pipe tool to create the torus shape as a cut extrusion. Then use the array tool set to feature to replicate that.
Yeah there are many ways to create your tool to cut the cylinder. The main thing I was trying to show was creating planes 18 degrees apart (360/18 = 20) so you can use those to "stagger" your pattern around the cylinder. This was an "off the cuff" tutorial, so it's not very polished! Thanks for the comment!
very good easy to follow tutorial , thank you for your effort
You can streamline this a bit by creating a tangent plane on the front of the cylinder and then draw a circle on it and use the pipe tool to create the torus shape as a cut extrusion. Then use the array tool set to feature to replicate that.
Yeah there are many ways to create your tool to cut the cylinder. The main thing I was trying to show was creating planes 18 degrees apart (360/18 = 20) so you can use those to "stagger" your pattern around the cylinder. This was an "off the cuff" tutorial, so it's not very polished! Thanks for the comment!
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I appreciate the effort you took with this!