Welding geometry?

[gringer]

Hey,

The reason your boolean union may look a bit rough could be to do with the larger cylinder not having enough sides. Try boosting the sides and give it another go.

Another way would be to make the cylinder again, except give it maybe 5-6 sides (low poly).
Convert it to an editable poly, then use some other modeling tools such as ring, connect, inset and extrude to 'grow' the smaller cylinder out of the side of the big one, instead of trying to attach it. Then apply a turbosmooth to the model.

It should be a good excercise in learning how smoothing works in relations to vertex/edge placement as well as general modeling.

Good luck :D

[newellteapot]

I am contrary to booleans in principle, they are enemies of good topology :)

Kidding, but I would follow Gringer's advice about extruding from the main geometry. It will pay off in cleanliness and controllability of the mesh :)

[kriscabrera]

thanks alot guys sounds like a good plan! i did try to add more geometry to the cylinder and it cleaned it up a little but it was still kind of rough. but i think that the idea of extruding off the cylinder would be better thanks for the help guys i appreciate it :thumbsup: I never really tried to connect a spline to geometry is it as simple as making a spline and lining it right up against the cylinder and connecting it? or is it more complicated? thanks

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