Knife tool tricks and tips for Blender
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- čas přidán 21. 07. 2024
- I had a request to go into some of the tools available in Blender in more detail and what you can do with them and this started like a good place to start as it seems really simple but there are a lot of shortcuts that make it much more versatile than it first may seem.
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Axis constrained knife tool as an alternative to a loop cut on complex geometry is honestly INSANE
I also always to love to learn about new things and have a great day
@anjonde4086 😁😁😁 Thanks man. 😉
Your videos are god sends for beginner 3d modelers like me, Its frustrating at times when you cant do the correct way of modeling something, Your content really helps out
Thanks so much man. Really appreciate that comment and glad I can help out 😁
As a survivor of 3ds max, im amazed at how blender has far better tools
i spent over 10 years in 3ds max and then switched to blender - i have zero moments to regret about it
🤣 I love the "survivor of" comment 🤣🤣🤣
haha i did the opposite-i learned modeling w Blender and then tried to use 3ds Max. i was pretty amazed at how awful and unintuitive some of the latter's tools and processes were. it really has the sense of being legacy software that has decades' worth of accumulated issues that no-one ever quite got around to fixing. (and i say that as someone who played around w very early versions of 3d Studio back in the day.)
I got fooled by the thumbnail, thinking that with knife tool you could actually split the mesh in two separate, manifold parts, and the inner cut faces would actually be filled.
Silly me!
But for real, is it possible with any other tool? Maybe some addon 🤔
That's completely my fault. I'm going to change the thumbnail. The easiest way to do that is with boxcutter, it is a paid for addon but it can do SO much. I've got a playlist on it here: czcams.com/play/PLnqmLZKRm5CajsNlyFbieVyGxzdbBN-jo.html
@@ArtisansofVaul Fantastic, thank you! I mean, the thumbnail looks good but is indeed a little confusing :D
The closest thing I can think of regarding cutting through and making capped meshes is by selecting all faces and go to Mesh > Bisect. You will need to select the faces of one side or the other after the bisection and separate it into its own mesh. Been a while since I used this. It is limited to simple straight lines though. Would be nice if the knife tool had the ability to do all this, as it can have multiple clicks to add cut line kinks and such. Nice to dream I suppose...
@@norm_olsen imagine if it could work from a curve....!
@@ArtisansofVaul I'm imagining! I like what I'm seeing lol ;)
Man, you unlocked in my brain this simple and useful tool. Thanks a lot!
My pleasure 😁
i always like your content about basic and native tools, and every time i found something new, even here i totally miss shortcut C (what a shame :D)
Oh the cut-through is such an awesome feature. But now you know 👍🏻😁
For some reason my snap to mid point is set to the ctrl key instead of the shift key and it’ll snap to the mid point but it won’t cut. Any suggestions?
Great tips dude. Have an algorithm cookie!
😅😅😅 Thanks, delicious 😉
Thanks alot!
@humbleraider6343 😁👍🏻 No problem. Glad it's helpful.
At the end it seems you are saying hold control but it's actually showing that you are holding shift. Was this a mistake or did I miss something? Thanks for the info.
Damn, that was a mistake. Sorry about that, what I initially said and you spotted was correct, it's shift. This is the issue with muscle memory, you kind of forget what you're hitting.
Awesome thank you!
My pleasure. Thanks for commenting 😁
As always great nice educational videos. But how do I start the knife tool say 1 inch from the vertex? It's nice and artsy but not very CAD precision like.
You're right. You can justbolace a vertex there first as it will snap to it in a similar way you'd measure in CAD. Or use Construction Lines which brings that all in. blendermarket.com/products/construction-lines/?ref=834
good video
@@cubodeneon3547 😁👍🏻 Cheers.
actually didn't knew that you can lock by degree , i tought it was locked at 30 forever :) thanks i'm gonna change it rn , knife tool is so usefull when you retopo
It's a lovely trick to have. I'm curious how you'd use that to help retopologising? (That's far from my area of knowledge)
@@ArtisansofVaul i meant for clean up the topology when you retopo , like when you have a triangle somewhere , you can't add loop cut sometimes , can't explain it properly cause my english is too poor haha
@styloo_ that makes sense. I thought you meant wanting a specific angle. 👍🏻
Would love to see video from you of an in depth comparison of advanced hard surface in Blender vs Plasticity. It seems like using Machin3 Tools, Mesh Machine, HardOps, Box Cutter etc in skilled hands gets you a comparable power of creation and speed, as using Plasticity. So what are the advantages of going one way or the other. I mean I use Blender already so lean towards staying within that framework. On the other hand, assembling and learning all these separate tools and maintaining a bunch of addons is actually pretty complicated and messy. Maybe Plasticity rolls all that into something that's actually simpler or more intuitive . . . Would appreciate your take on all that.
Sorry for the delay replying, I've been working through a backlog of comments. I have done a video discussing Plasticity (if you haven't seen it I'll link below) but it doesn't go into depth. Personally I would say for the cost you'll get more from Blender and you'll only have to pay that cost once, the versatility of Blender and its functions isn't going to get beaten any time soon. Now if you use a lot of fillets/bevels then I would say Plasticity may save you time there but at this point I just don't think it's worth the (continuing) costs vs the one off payments for Blender addons.
You have no idea how many times I've rotated and knifed all the way around an object just because I didn't know about "C". Thank you.
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Didn't know about Shift to cut in center either. I was making Loop Cuts just to snap to a vertex, then deleting unnecessary edges. Cheers.
My pleasure. And thanks for commenting, its always nice to know that these videos are helping people.
But how to remesh for good triangles after using knife
I personally wouldn't bother but then I use Ble der for 3D printing where it isn't a requirement. But if the surfaces are flat it also shouldn't cause an issue. What are you trying to do?
@@ArtisansofVaul i import png image as plan then and when i cut around my art using knif it cuts edges nicely but the art who left in good shape and when i need to rigg my art with deformation bones it tells me i need geometry inside my art but i cant make it... why bcs my art become a bad ingones so plz how do i fix geometry without trashing my art
2 doesn't seem to work for me while in Vertex mode, instead it just does the normal thing of switching to faces. I do have machin3tools.
You need to turn on the "Smart" tools in the addon preference menu
Haha yep, I caught this while rewatching your "everything I use in Machin3 tools explained" video. Thanks again for the excellent content. I'm coming from a straight CAD background and so am having to relearn a lot of workflows. Cheers.
I spend a lot of time doing geometry stuff that I should be going to the knife tool for. Sheesh. :-)
I think we all do. It's assumed it's quite a "basic" tool but actually you can do a huge amount with it. Something I just realised I didn't test or think about is if you draw a line is the next angle snapping relative to the just drawn line or the world.... and can that be changed.... 🤔
Just curious, but is there a way to effectively array objects along a surface? So for example I have a beam, and I want to array it across an organic curved surface, what would the best option be?
The only option I have in mind is making a loop cut and using that curve as the object reference to array along, but sometimes that doesn't work because the surface might have multiple complex level differences. Rhino can do this easily, but I haven't found something in Blender that makes this task easy.
is it like rotation your having an issue with?
A curve is the only real way. But it shouldn't have an issue with anything in the way you have mentioned. Is the issue with the rotation of the object?
You could use geometry nodes for maximum control.
Add a line with a high level ofsubdivision, shrinkwrap it to your surface along where you want the objects to go.
Add a Geometry nodes modifier
Add the following nodes:
- Mesh to curve
- Resample curve (How many instances do you want)
- Instance on points
- Drag the geometry of the beam into the instance node
- Align euler to vector into the rotation of instance on points
- Normal (or Tangent) into the vector input of align euler
You should get the beams to follow your original surface and you can control the number and distance of the beams with the resample curve node.
@@9whiteandnerdy9 Yea.. I usually do the simple old method, but I've been trying to learn geo nodes for this reason. So flexible.
in my opinion sketchup has more easy to model than blender but your tutorial is good
It depends what you're trying to model. For architecture I probably agree but for other things (especially curved geometry like bevels) I'd take Blender any day. And I learned 3d design on Sketchup so did love it.
Sketchup is mega cool, but have a lot of limitations
why doesnt my direction keys work on the knife tool? congrats on 40k btw
Thanks. Hmm... not sure why your direction tools wouldn't work. Are you on Blender 4?
so when you use knife cut you can't really remove the piece you wished to cut off so whats is the purpose forgive me as I am noobe thanks
It's designed to add geometry so you can do things like fix topology but also create a face to potentially extrude/etc.
Your thumbnail showed that you sliced the cube in several pieces but you did demonstrate how that was done :(
Sorry, that's using other functions so I just wanted to discuss the knife and otherwise the image would just show a cube with lines on.
To do it select the faces you want as a seperate piece, click p, then separate by selection. That will make that piece a separate object.
@@ArtisansofVaul Thank you
@@marksmanaz It's a good question. I'll do a video on it as there are a huge number of options available to do this 👍🏻
is this a re-upload or smth?? i could've sworn ive seen this before.. could be deja vu
It isn't from me.... I'm sure videos have been made from other people on the topic but I haven't seen one that included everything together.
@@ArtisansofVaul then deja vu it is
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The knife tool has been demonised and made illegal in Britain.
I'm an American. Where's the gun tool?
@@NotSoMuchFrankly 🤣 This is the closest I can get: czcams.com/users/shortsxS3lwTuyKLo
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@@ArtisansofVaul Ah, yes! The bazooka tool. Noice.
@@NotSoMuchFrankly 🤣
The video thumbnail is a bit misleading. Knife *only* adds geometry. it does Not split the mesh to different mesh islands, or even separate the mesh to different meshes. Knife is the opposite of Dissolve (Ctrl+X)
The only thing that comes close to the thumbnail picture, is bisect. Long-click on the knife tool, select bisect
That's fair. I'll have a think how I can change it without it just being a cube with some lines 😅
@@ArtisansofVaulBetter yet, show how you can make this separation happen, with knife (Not bisect). It's not as simple as just separating with 'P'. This topic deserves a deep dive in my opinion.
I'm asking, because I had a similar situation: I needed to do a separation, and it wasn't a simple line, or else I used bisect. What I ended up doing was: I knifed where I needed, then I hit 'H' to hide. As a result, I ended up with two islands, which is what I wanted. Then I selected the entire island with 'L', and then separated it. This was wrong because I forgot to to Alt+H before separating
@@eitantal726 That's a good call. Though my simple answer to get as close to the knife tool would be boxcutter....
Very bad software.
Only if you don't know what you're doing with it 🤦♂