Chris's Stuff.

by **Matt Sederberg** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 1:05 pm

Chris Botha wrote:an intersting one.. and bobs your aunty..

both for me.. the tattoo and the ring!

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Nice one Chris. Good time to use tsAppend :tsAppend:

. This is the type of thing that many beginner users think should be a push-button in T-Splines. I guess it is relatively straightforward but you need to lay out your faces the right way. Good work.

by **Chris Botha** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 5:58 pm

I initially used tspipe for almost everything, simply because it was easier, but you are correct... tsappend used correctly is far more powerful, better control over fine areas..

by **Chris Botha** » Thu Jan 12, 2012 1:55 pm

My next TS project! New body shell in foam for my Drone. will fibreline the shell after. adding some mechanical fitting areas for GoPro HD cam etc.. This job is screaming for TSplines !

the existing outside shell is like so

sketched out a few ideas will model next week.. happily it just just just fits on my cnc..

by **JSantocono** » Thu Jan 12, 2012 3:46 pm

Fun project!

Does the Drone can hold a GoPro camara? (weight)

JuanS

by **Chris Botha** » Thu Jan 12, 2012 4:30 pm

eap, can hold around 110gr.. so need to dump the external fixturing system and add a locating thread instead... quite a fe wof them around but all work on adding more weight to existing frame, I plan to reduce weight of frame, increase strength and leave more room for the 2600MAH (orig = 1000mah) battery AND the Go Pro.. at current its not possible to have both and orioginal battery only = 10 minutes flight time.. so i want to make a construct that i can build a "skeleton" around, fibleglass, carbon fibre the construct and add mounting points..

the AR Drone 2 apparently features GPS tracking too.. I wont buy one tho.. it was hard enough convincing the wife that this was legitimate research...

also you need to be carefull because you can kiss your drone (300 bucks) and camera (300bucks) goodbye quite easily in the wind.. so think extra weight will actualy help handling, less nimble but more stability..

so this doenst happen

by **Chris Botha** » Thu Jan 12, 2012 4:34 pm

xcuse the language.. i was NOT happy...

by **JSantocono** » Thu Jan 12, 2012 5:27 pm

Chris Botha wrote:.. it was hard enough convincing the wife that this was legitimate research...

heheh

It is a very legit research. Top tech stuff.

Chris Botha wrote:also you need to be carefull because you can kiss your drone (300 bucks) and camera (300bucks) goodbye quite easily in the wind.. so think extra weight will actualy help handling, less nimble but more stability..

Yeah, I think that the extra weight will help stability. And will make video much more steady.

lol, it seems that you have always the right tool for each job. "Stuff to take things down of a tree"
Very funny...

by **Chris Botha** » Fri Jan 13, 2012 1:39 am

Chris Botha wrote:some days i like T-Splines, other days I ask myself, "how the hell did i live without it.. "

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here is the wax from that.. the stone grew somewhat since then, from a 50 pointer to a 1.17 d vs2..

by **Chris Botha** » Mon Jan 16, 2012 12:44 am

and this one based on that one... these things are so much faster to develop in T-SPlines..

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by **Chris Botha** » Sun Jan 22, 2012 1:46 am

bored....

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by **Chris Botha** » Sun Jan 22, 2012 3:40 am

this is kind of advertising, so delete if you need to, but I figure I have given enough here to get away with a teensy bit of promotion.

my wife runsa seperate CAD entity business to mine doing Virtual Inventory, basically send her some pics she models jewelery, renders stills and/or turntables, one of our clients is live at the moment, and some pieces feature Tsplines models, feel free to browse around and if you think you could use something like this contact my wife at

caro@digital-jeweller.com

Regards
Chris

http://www.dreamdiamondstore.com/

click around and see the turntable animations etc

by **Chris Botha** » Thu Jan 26, 2012 2:20 pm

Matt Sederberg wrote:Here's a recording of the webinar that Chris put on with us last week. Thanks again, Chris!

HA! that webinar has come back to bite me on the bum! The transcript had a bunch of my lunatic fanbase asking ridiculous questions like "Is he the Green Lantern...."

last night quite by coincidence my kids watch the movie and HAD to have a ring.. this recording of that

[BROKEN VIDEO LINK: Re-Uploading this weekend]

lets hope the rumours dont start up again about my super hero secret identity

FYI.. I tried this in Tspline but I am quite obviously not talented enouhg to get it right, i tried from a quadball, extruded the "beams" and tried to insert edges and tighten up the weights.. but .. well .. no go.. some stuff its jsut easier to do the good old way..

BUT..

@Juan.. dont let that stop you proving me wrong!?!?!?!?

:twisted:

by **Chris Botha** » Tue Jan 31, 2012 9:26 pm

No time for renders folks.. stuff moving over my bench too fast now.. busy on a HUGE project with tsplines, cant say more for now, think international level

in the meanwhile i did a tutorial for the new apprentice, here is the compressed version

by **Nicholas North** » Wed Feb 01, 2012 11:18 am

Great tutorial, Chris!

Thanks for sharing.

by **JSantocono** » Wed Feb 01, 2012 1:30 pm

Nice stuff Chris,
Your kids are lucky that can have a custom Green lantern Ring!

Chris Botha wrote:@Juan.. dont let that stop you proving me wrong!?!?!?!?

lol, I think I can pull it in T-Splines..., but plain Rhino sounds (and looks) much more effective.
I may give it a try...

JuanS

by **alkrever** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 11:52 am

HI Chris: Thanks for the tutorial. Quick question. When you refer to F4 what do you mean? Have you applied a macro to F4? or What? (my fault of course, I must be missing something).

by **Chris Botha** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 12:55 pm

Hi yes, apologies, Matrix assigns world origin 0,0,0 to the F4 key. You can set this in options, under keyboard or use whatever system you have now

by **Chris Botha** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 4:13 am

Apologies to all with missing videos, I accidentally deleted one full page of videos (50) form youtube and am not able to restore them

, I will upload bit by bit as possible, apologies.

this affect all posts since 19 December, once again apologies.

This ring is the completion of one of the video tutorials that got deleted too, I will try find the original file on my HD and repost the tutorial when i have some time.

[edit]
Re uploaded Tsplines Workflow of this

by **Chris Botha** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 4:15 pm

Repost of this, reuploaded video, including new finishing video. Could a moderator please go through the other posts on this page and delete the ones with broken video links

Tsplines Crossover Sweep, Complete Workflow.

CAD:

CAM:

BENCH+SET:

by **Chris Botha** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 7:19 pm

Another Reupload of lost videos, apologies for confusion.

CAD

Finished

by **Chris Botha** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 7:23 pm

and a new clip, some Tsplines action about halfway in

and cad video.

by **Chris Botha** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 9:38 pm

nice little remodel.. 99% TSPIPE

by **jokat** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 1:46 pm

Hi Chris,
I never normally post anywhere, but I really wanted to thank you for your posting habits! You have helped me learn an enormous amount in the last year.. muchos gracias Mr B!
(A year after buying tsplines I've got my little training day on wed.. :roll:

)

btw, did you ever get along with blender at all? I'm trying to find a solution to learn to model 'sculpted' forms (like a skull or a proper bumble bee or something - you know, like old fashioned clay models) and it's appealing that it is free..

Thanks again..
Gia.

by **Chris Botha** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 12:52 am

Hi Gia,

Your kind words appreciated

Blender is like Zbrush.. powerful, but you need to be "special" to understand its interface.. if you have some money laying around spare I HIGHLY recommend MODO, or if it s budget concern try Silo, Glen Southern has heaps of tutorials for Silo which translate very well for tSplines as well.

by **Chris Botha** » Mon Mar 19, 2012 6:48 pm

Input images from existing crests.

TSAPPENDFACE:

TSTHICKEN:

Almost done:

Finished:

by **Matt Sederberg** » Tue Mar 20, 2012 10:12 am

Nice, thanks for posting Chris. I got a call last evening from someone wanting to make a similar topology - will point him to this.

Matt

by **Chris Botha** » Wed Mar 21, 2012 2:33 pm

no worries, I should use zbrush to do the hair and final trims etc, but this a production model, not a render model, and realisticaly my milling machine cutter wont mill that super fine detail <50um, so some stuff like that i just do by hand in the wax, or in the final piece.

by **Chris Botha** » Wed Mar 21, 2012 9:21 pm

this one done

by **Chris Botha** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 12:02 am

been a while, been a bit busy

lovely tsplines tspipe undercarriage in this one

by **JSantocono** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:21 am

Hi Chris, nice design man! as usual.
JuanS

by **Chris Botha** » Tue Jun 19, 2012 3:06 am

platinum slide pendant for a 6.2ct diamond

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and this was just for fun

by **Rehan Sheikh** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 8:11 am

Chris Botha wrote:platinum slide pendant for a 6.2ct diamond
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and this was just for fun
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A man who works by hand is called a laborer,
A man who works by hand and by head is called a craftsman,
and
A man who works by his hand, by his head and by his heart is called an artist.
Only those who work by heart can have fun with there tough jobs.

by **Chris Botha** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 5:27 am

Rehan.. Thank you. Kinds words from a distinguished peer are always welcome.

by **Chris Botha** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 11:38 pm

the 6.2ct slide finished up

image as a frame of reference on size.

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by **Chris Botha** » Sat Jun 30, 2012 4:52 pm

tsPipe knotwork on this Celtic and Ogham wedding band set.

by **Matt Sederberg** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 2:27 pm

Beautiful.

by **oliviertij** » Sat Jul 07, 2012 11:16 am

Hello Juan,Matt, Saskia, Knead, Chris, and the others...

Chris, be honest, how many hours do you sleep by night ?

:shock:

by **Chris Botha** » Sun Jul 08, 2012 6:50 am

"I'll sleep when I'm dead."
- Warren Zevon (1947-2003)

untill then the world wants me to figure out more of its secrets, and I embrace that search heartily!

by **Chris Botha** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 2:44 pm

the top and bottom wings and the shank blend are all :tsBridge:

and

by **Chris Botha** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 9:56 pm

easy money

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by **Chris Botha** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 3:52 am

quick clip for my apprentice

by **Chris Botha** » Wed Jul 25, 2012 2:45 pm

and more practice for him.. wonder if he thinks I am a chipmonk

by **Chris Botha** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 6:18 pm

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