Hey everybody,
Some time ago I started writing a C++ node for Maya that takes a piece of geometry and gives you a radial symmetric version of it. This is ment to be used for modelling wheels and gears with the benefit of a realtime preview of the final result.
Here a preview video of how it works:
Let me know your thoughts about it. Do you think this could be usefull for yourself?
Thank you very much,
Jacopo
Hi,
I like it. I just finished modeling a car and this would of been very useful. A question for you though, does it have to be perfect circle? I am thinking about tank treads and other such things. I am not a coder myself but could that be possible also?
Either way I like it.
Hi Michael,
Thank you for your feedback.
Right now, it does only circular shapes. But I think it could be possible to adapt it in order to make it follow a curve shape. That’s something that I have to think about…
Jacopo
This is really handy tool. Its awesome that this is realtime, makes it really useful in production where you need to iterate quickly with design changes.
Thank you Kelvin!
I really wasn’t expecting this thread to come back to life by itself 
It still needs some work in order to be actually ready for a production environment. The current version is slightly updated. I might decide to show it soon but I don’t know right now… Too much stuff to keep together here. :banghead:
Anyway, I’m glad that you appreciate it!
You’ll see some updates on this sooner or later.
Cheers!
I had to model the tires for a car that I’m currently working on so I took the occasion to test my jRevolve node: it’s almost stable. It didn’t crash one single time in 4 hours of modeling and it just revealed me one little bug near the end of the work.
After this test I have a couple of things in mind to really push the convenience of this tool but it’s already quite interesting to work with it!
here a timelapse:
