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Looks great, thanks for sharing!

Excellent presentation on this. I always appreciate all the useful information that you give in these demos.

This is every day for me doing props. But still I enjoy watching you work.

Am I first to say "thank you for another video!"?

This is perfectly watchable on 2x speed.

This is extremely helpful. Thank you.

Is it possible to invert cut direction in gumball? for instance if I have a extusion and another smaller curve far away from the extrusion, then grabing the gumball with cut handle, would be nice to have an option to cut outside of the curve and not just only inside of the extrusion. Or am I missing something? Thnak you.

Your working is wonderful ...

I’m glad you laugh at the haters. All the things that get you stuck in the mud are so relatable. Your ability to laugh at issues that arise (and yourself) make your tutorials great. Tutorials that go perfect are far less useful. You are the best!

Thanks, interesting model. One thing I've noticed after converting subd to nurbs is that structure/topology of those nurbs surfaces are quite bad... There are hundred pieces, they are not perfectly continuous, and pretty much non-editable anymore. Is that kind of model acceptable in production, or... to call it A-class it would require to rebuild everything? In SubD world we have retoplogy tools, that allow to turn junk meshes to clean quads. Is there some analogue for nurbs?

Is there a shortcut for turning points on and off? How did you select only the one point on the subD plane without turning on all the points. This was at 29:34 in the video.

Very amazing sir

Extremely helpful and perfectly explained. Thank you

molto buono

Right at the end of the process. "I have no idea what size this thing is" :).

Smash N Mash

So this is what 3D artist in Windows XP era proud of at the days... Always wondering why they showcase simple 3D object, seem like I'm 20 years behind.

Do Rhino have asset library like sketchup warehouse where people share their model?

when I create the first surface through the "pull" command I have to change the surface degree manually. Whereas in the tutorial this happens as a result of the origin curve being third degree. is this a problem? how do I solve it? thank you!

Hi Mr. Houchens, Because in my case with Rhino 8 when I try to extrude and move the object it does not refer to the control points like it does for you? at part 44:50 of the video. I already activated all the object references and it still continues to extrude freely. thanks for the support.

I am astonished. I just tried and the results are amazing, my first rendering. Thanks!

Hey, Kyle. I started learning Rhino from v7, and I have few questions about most popular addons/plugins. Don't you have a video on that? Rhino has million plugins, would be nice to hear what is good for what from an expert. Thanks in advance! 1. As I understand T-Splines are fully replaced with SubD toolset in v7? Are they really the same, or there still might be reasons to go back for T-Splines? 2. And what is your opinion on xNurbs? On video demonstrations it looks like loft/patch, which can automatically fill holes in complex surfaces with G2 continuity... But I'm confused here... I thought any Nurbs soft should be able to do it by default! Is it really worth the money, or you can achieve it with Rhino default tools? 3. Maybe you can name other plugins worth mentioning?

Great stuff Kyle. I'd certainly agree that having simpler starting surfaces would make Shell work much better - but sometimes you just have to work with what you've got. When Shell fails a result is generally achievable with a little bit of work.

Super. Thanks for explaining the process. I did not know how to resurface with split by isocurve. That's where I had no idea how to proceed. If you are curious - it's an enclosure prototype for wall mount electronics. I'm trying to learn the right way to model these curved surfaces so I did try to resurface the base model to simpler curves / single span after watching the primary surfacing videos and it went fairly well. Until I ran into a weird thing I can't explain. Not sure if it's bug or I did something wrong, but I did do exactly same thing on other 2 corners and it worked well. Two corner sweeps went as expected but other two of the corner sweep surfaces, when I tried to work on them, acted like they are one surface from corner to corner even though selection shows it as separate one. I tried to extract the corner sweep surface by split and it gave me not the surface I selected but whole top. It's in this post. -> discourse.mcneel.com/t/shell-makes-naked-edges-please-help/183443/5?u=harijs_zablockis

After I learned what single span was, my surfacing life got 1000x better.

Thanks, good stuff! Nice hard surface model, different modeling techniques, a bit of problems resolving (my favorite part). Only thing missing is chamfer/fillets. I don't know, maybe it is normal in CAD workflows, to leave perfectly sharp edges/corners, but in SubD modeling we never do that. But as I understand that is a weak side of Rhino - filleting complex assemblies would be a nightmare from what I know now... That "edge softening" is nice, but very limited compared to what we have in 3ds Max+Vray. Vray EdgeTex gives a lot more control, and can render HUGE fillets without a problem, not sure why Rhino is starting to break at 0.04 value... But anyway, it is just a rendering trick, not even sure if anyone renders with Rhino.

wow great tutorial i am really impressed!

I honestly want somebody to tell me that

Beside the amazing tutorial, I think your toy design actually make your rhino model looks so appealing ❤

Hi Kyle! Great video! Helped a lot on my sunglasses project! I have a question. Is there a video about your hotkey setup? Thanks!

thank you prof. Kyle

Hey, Kyle! Thanks again, love your tutorials! Step by step Rhino starts to make some sense)) Only problem I had following this was Fillet didn't work for me, trying to use ChainEdges it went partially flipped/inverted/broken... But trick with Pipe-Boolean-Blend worked fine. I'm wondering if there is a tutorial showing how to solve those problems with messy surfaces? How to clean bad topology (when control points are fighting each other), why match surface not working because of trims, kinks, why split/merge sometimes doesn't work... etc. In this video you showed few very useful tricks like that Extend Surface not working because of some invisible trim on pipe object. But problem is it is very hard to find answer like "why my Extend surface is not working?". Google will not find this video on such request... Is there some sort of Rhino golden rules how to avoid such problems?

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Thank you for the video, it was very helpful. I just wanted to ask you a question, I tried following the process and building this along with you but every time I had to add an edge to the SubD (loop or single edge/vertex) it didn’t work. The command would just show the preview of the edge line, but after clicking enter the command would just not work. Do you have any idea on how this is possible? Thank you again!!

Works beautifully. Takes the frustration out of filleting! Thank you!

How to add material after creating this geometry?

How do you define which commands deserve "boop"? And yes, another great tutorial. Thank you!

When it is a Sub-D surface it does not recognize the textures.🤕

I love that you focused on different methods to get result, it really helps to learn better. Thank you for your tutorials.

Why materials treated badly in Rhino? I tried adding materials from Vray and closed it, mext time I opened it, one of the material is not shown. I appliad a material, and when I pushpull it, the material is not shown correctly (stretched). Lastly, when there's many material applied to objects, my Rhino become slower. Any explanation please

I love the fact that Kyle's demos are about how to THINK as much as about various tools and how to use them. I also admire his willingness to fly by the seat of his pants. . .

subd is the best thing i discovered through this channel

Thanks dear Kyle,please share us more about surface modeling like this. watching you and problems struggling and the way you pass them has so much to learn and so joyful. Still waiting for your master clips for molding stuff in rhino. Best regards

Love your tutorials, warts and all…and thank you for NOT making this in SubD! 🙂

Thank you. This is by far the best method and explanation I have came across in my journey into learning rhino.🙏🙏🙏

I appreciate that you are sharing your struggles during the process. It means a lot to me because I also face similar challenges, and knowing that even a master encounters the same problems helps me feel more at ease, thanks for sharing!!

Kyle, the Master. Thank you for this tutorial!

Working with subd is very inconvenient. My opinion is that it is better to do the subd in a polygonal program, for example Blender or Cinema4D (where it will be much faster and better), then import it into Rhino and continue working further. And most likely the problem is that you don’t understand topology, otherwise you would have done everything differently from the very beginning, rather than making a bunch of changes just like that. Sorry for my statement...

Great feature. Maybe one day Grasshopper programs have a clean interface mode. Basically making them component configurators to make an component library with or shared app-store with. That would be less technical and very collaborative.

How did your hide command hide everything else ( I expected it to hide the selected objects), and how did you bring the armada back up?