Modeling Nut Bolt with Polygons 1

Mechanical Modeling 2 minutes read


In this tutorial we are going to model a NUT and BOLT with Polygons.
In this tutorial we are going to model a NUT and BOLT with Polygons. This tutorial belongs to Poly Mechanical Modeling in Maya.

Let’s start with a Poly Cylinder.

  1. Create a Poly Cylinder with default settings
  2. Show wireframe on shaded
  3. Go to the Channel box and Put values as below
    4. Height 0.7
Subdivision Axis 18
Subdivision Caps 3
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  4. Right Click on the object and choose Edge from the right click marking menu
  5. Select edges ring of sides, select one edge and then leave two edges and repeat this action until the last edge
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  6. Go the top view
  7. Get scale tool
  8. Uniformly scale all selected edges and you will get a shape like image below

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    Top view

  9. Go to the side view and scale on Y axis for adjusting the height of selected edges. See image below

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    Side view

  10. Go to the Select Menu, choose Select Edge Loop Tool
  11. Include Top and Bottom edge loops of Nut object. See image below
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  12. Go to the Edit Mesh Menu > Bevel with default settings
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  13. Go to Edit Mesh Menu choose Insert Edge Loop Tool
  14. Insert a new edge loop near the corner edge of top of Nut object. See image below
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  15. Right click on object and choose vertex

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  16. Select 6 edges of corners and scale them uniformly. And make a circle type shape
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  17. Repeat the steps 13, 14, 15 and 16 for opposite side of the Nut. Change the camera from top to bottom and create same edge loop on other side.
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  18. Go to edit mesh and bevel more edges loops of new extruded faces and make soft and cool shape like a real nut
  19. Create another cylinder with default settings in the scene
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  20. Change the subdivision axis of new cylinder to 18 so that its line become align to the Nut’s lines

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