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3D Printing Designs: The Sun Puzzle

You're reading from   3D Printing Designs: The Sun Puzzle Bringing puzzles in 3 dimensions for 3D printing with Blender

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785888892
Length 118 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Drawing the face


In this section, we will make the face for our puzzle. Under the Brush tool, there is a whole palette of tools to use:

The default brush, F SculptDraw, is the most common and is already selected, so we'll start with it. Switch to the Top view (Numpad 7) and follow these steps:

  1. From the middle, nearer to the bottom, click and drag in a curve to make a smile:

  2. Repeat the action a little lower down to finish the lips:

Tip

Remember, you can undo (Ctrl + Z) until the lips look the way you want them to.

Because of the symmetry setting, anything done on the left is repeated on the right, reducing work and making it easy for you to make a pleasing shape.

Because of dynamic topology, the rough polygons of the original shape are smoothed out so that all the details of the drawn shapes show through. This effect is easier to see if the view is switched to wireframe mode (Z).

Dynamic topology will continue to add detail where we need it as we sculpt:

  1. In the Tool Box, increase the Radius setting...

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