C4D Fundamentals | 05 - Modeling Exercise - How to Model a Nut

UPDATE An updated (paid) version of this series is available at www.c4d-fundamentals.com
In this basic Cinema4D tutorial we go from theory to practice and do some hands on modeling by using Polygon Modeling and Sub-Division Modeling techniques.
Step by step we will model a nut, since this object is simple enough for a start, but still has some interesting characteristics. Make sure to have the basic knowledge from episode 03 and 04 to follow along.
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00:33 The Nut
01:50 The Parametric Objects
05:30 Aligning edges
11:00 The Edge Cut Tool
12:30 Connect Objects
13:45 Stich and Sew!
16:00 Put in the Sub-D Object
19:00 The Bevel-Tool
20:30 Adding more details
23:00 Harder edges
28:00 Adding the thread

[@sarkawtmohammedrahman3185]

Best tutorial I have ever seen, thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. April 2020.

[@delhicious8851]

Excellent series of tutorials. This series is better than the paid tuts of e-learning sites. Keep it up. and thanks

[@c4dfundamentals]

+Delhicious Thanks! That's a very motivating feedback! I

[@amaury_permer]

I see that you haven't tried Digital Tutors

[@savethdy5399]

I have ever seen,thanks for sharing your knowledge with us . good luck

[@tatianarubas]

Great tutorial. Really solidified my understanding of what subdivision modeling is about. Thank you!

[@hyena_2237]

Thank you so much, best tutorials I've come across (by far)

[@BillyKostka]

Just wanna say thank you for putting these tutorial videos together. I just worked through this one today and it really helped a lot of the fundamentals click for me. Thank you!

[@geocoy3]

Watched your whole series and I think these are much clearer than other tutorials I've seen on the same subject. Your approach of identifying the tools and giving a simple illustration of how they work is a much better approach then I have seen from others. Id love to see to something on sculpturing or a show and tell on the proper approach to sculpturing. There are bunch of videos on building cars etc that don't make as much sense to me as what you have done here.

[@LuisRdzG10]

I just feel like I've learned a milestone with this simple exercise, OMG! Keep it going bro, I will stick to this channel!

[@bebedeluz]

Awesome tutorial, loved it so much

[@donross7820]

Very helpful tutorial. Thank you!! I especially liked the section on sharpening curvy edges.

[@c4dfundamentals]

You're welcome! Happy I could help!

[@joliepam]

Very well explained! Thank you professor Christoph!

[@vodkaburner3371]

Excellent. Best I`ve found yet for C4D. I`m new to this coming from Rhino.

[@waleedjohn1300]

BRILLIANT TUTORIAL

[@jordanmckinlay5071]

Thank you so much for your tutorials Christoph! They are incredibly useful for beginners like me :)

[@lowpigment]

Thanks Christoph, you filled in a lot of knowledge gaps I had.

[@AllenMayles]

good tut thank you, I know how hard it is to put things like this together. I screwed up on a selection somewhere and one of my corners got messed up but mostly it turned out really well. I never would have thought to make the threads like that. Thanks again.

[@azddines4077]

Amazing!

[@edgararias6744]

Learning a lot! thanks!

[@mrmachine5632]

great tone and solid info, thanks

[@SANJEEVKUMARGUPTA]

good it helped me lot but loop things i dont understand fully .. i will check other videos ..thank you

[@PhilippeMoesch]

Super great tutorial. I learned a lot of new technics and shortcuts. I was wondering if you planned a tut about texturing or setting up a metal material for this nut

[@jaydesai6947]

Superb explanation. Thank you sir.

[@antonisdanas6064]

Man thank's A LOT for making these videos!! You are an angel!! Please do post more videos :D :D

[@mohamedelhadda7283]

very helpful and simple Thank you professor best tuto

[@educastelito]

Really Great Christoph, thank you!

[@imtiazAhmadimtiaz096]

thank you @Christoph Doe to share such a great

[@yewsoonfatt]

Thank you! learned some new things today

[@mkuuwizzoh6815]

Mehn ur videos are helping a lot....blessings always follow you🙏🙏

[@bu1Sman]

thanks for your tuts, very good lessons

[@kraphik3d]

Great tutorial. At the end you might want to scale object into real nut size.

[@jeshvinvisualgraphic]

I really appreciate you making these tuts my friend!

[@YujoeMych]

Waaay too helpful!!!! THANK YOU!

[@ReziMG]

Very Cool Tecknicks .. Thank you

[@Fugidobrasil]

thanks

[@Mrjoaobona]

Great tut

[@JC-gq1gt]

Sorry for deleting the comment. I had shortly realized after I made the comment that I did not select the bottom part of the tube to make the edges with the "edge cut" tool so my lines were converging on one point at the bottom. Everything is working out thus far. I only just saw the notification. Thank you for the speedy reply!

[@fsxdb000]

JUST LOVELY BRO

[@kmpoon2550]

Thank you.

[@dnsooi]

this tutorial has seen easy but since I was doing with it I just using around a few hours to finish it

[@c4dfundamentals]

Best way to learn though. :) only by using you will really get what I teach.

[@sindikattrgovinebih7125]

AMAZING TUT...THANKS SIR

[@yazandyab5184]

Great!!

[@lashachiqovani]

great, thank you...

[@MohdShahzeb-r9x]

hi am getting problem when i add subdivision surface to the bolt at 16:00 as i am getting triangles at the edge of the models and the inner circle is stays sharp please help me

[@finderskeepers7346]

Hey man i love you! I really do

[@c4dfundamentals]

Ilya Gone I feel flattered :)

[@settedenti]

thanks !

[@LuizFChaves]

The bottom left you not circulate equal to up to almost the end of the video ended up getting mixed up with step by step. I'll have to go back and redo it, but that's okay, it was a good video.

[@beposmith6663]

Grazie!!..Thanks!!!

[@flcanga]

very good and useful tutorials. Can u do another one for modeling a Neoclassic bulding? That has all the details of building ? thanx

[@c4dfundamentals]

Do you mean outside or interior? Especially outside can be quite tricky, because of the complex shapes and patterns of such buildings, very tedious. What do you need this for? Animation? game? Architectural visualization?

[@flcanga]

@@c4dfundamentals i need it for Videoprojection mapping. The main work goes to modeling and effecta and its difficult to find a proper pro tutorial on youtube for that. I find ur way of explaining very good and suitable for everyone. Thabx and all the best.

[@c4dfundamentals]

Do you habe access to the property? I wouldn't model it by hand in this case, I would try to use a photo scan / photogrammetry software. There are some smartphone apps out there, I did a tutorial on that, but I think the particular app went out of business. You can basically do it with a normal camera and some software though: Found this after a quick google search for example: www.agisoft.com/pdf/PS_1.1%20-Tutorial%20(IL)%20-%20Building.pdf Here is another one: www.capturingreality.com/architecture After you get the point / cloud data into cinema you can convert it into a mesh and if needed you can retopologize the mesh to a lower resolution manually by hand or by algorithms like quadmesher. Let me know if you need some more help. This is my tutorial on photogrammetry: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJXPc3iDatSpo9k

[@flcanga]

@@c4dfundamentals thanx for you help/ . Anyway a tutorial for this purpose it will be very special.

[@flcanga]

@@c4dfundamentals yes its public property

[@x0m6ie]

Edge cut green lines dont appear any thoughts?

[@amarillavenegasriera2234]

Same here, don't waste your time with this tutorial, the guy doesn't explain half of things that it should be explained.

[@GLYNCURTIS]

HELP, I got to the edge cut tool and no green lines appear? my lines don't go vertically down either.

[@johngordon5495]

The problem is you dont know what ur doing.

[@GLYNCURTIS]

yeah thanks for that, you were very helpful...not!

[@Ekfantos]

i don't know if you've solved it by now but you can go to filter and check n-gon lines. you see your edge-cut tool has enabled n-gon creation and you possibly don't have enable your c4d to show you these line cuts. Also, maybe you forgot to remove the inner surfaces of the hexagon, and most importantly you didn't optimize your geometry [ U~O ]. A last thing that could destroy your edge cut is to NOT have selected the proper edges before you go to edge-cut. I hope i helped :]

[@falls2180]

Now how to add objects on our photos. Sir

[@tapok1991]

cooooooooooool

[@benwest6735]

Hey bro. Appreciate the tutorials. Just a question, have some of the ways to accomplish tasks changed from this tutorial until now? To be specific at 9:20 you use optimise to join the polygon to the edges. When I pull the polygon from the edge it is already joined. Is this an update from Cinema? or am I going mad? Cheers

[@c4dfundamentals]

Yes it was updated a few versions ago :) so that you don’t need to do that step every time

[@kraphik3d]

It is a good tutorial. Some points. Only thing but very important inner part is not helix but only waves? How about change the intro graphics from green lines to metallic or grey render. 0:15 that people can see the result?

[@johngordon5495]

How bout you quit complaining.

[@kraphik3d]

John Gordon How about improving?

[@johngordon5495]

THIS IS BOLLOCKS!!! Bollocks being a good thing!

[@mromag4773]

good job, please go on also on lightning, render and material editor

[@c4dfundamentals]

Massimo Romagnani I will. Next two or three episodes will be about light & rendering

[@257Nathalie]

Christoph Doe i love you Christoph Doe

[@quansahjozef1018]

For some reasons my loop selection tool wouldn't work and I had to select the edges of the cylinder one after the other. @ 13:41

[@c4dfundamentals]

Maybe something is broken in your polygon flow ?

[@quansahjozef1018]

@@c4dfundamentals OK I'll check that

[@ali91iraq]

Thanks (y)

[@victorb656]

Great stuff! Xlnt presentation and detail. Small note tho - your finishing "threads" are not actually spiraling as real threads would... Instead, the result is a simple stack of concentric rings. Getting threads that spiral/"screw" would be a great finish, tho perhaps a tougher nut to crack. ;)

[@JonBagge]

No actually this method does give a proper spiral thread. Try it yourself. I can't quite work out how it works either, but it works.

[@victorb656]

No, these are simply stacked rings of indentations...not a true thread (selection @ 31:47). Instead of separate rings articulating the threads, it should be one continuous spiral (i.e., if you stay on/follow it, you can begin at the top and end up at the bottom). Yes, from a distance or without scrutiny it certainly *appears* to be threads...but it's not.

[@kaylielynn2107]

at 10:20 I get confused, what shortcuts are you using when extruding the point of the tube to meet with the cylinder? When I select all the inner edges and then switch to the Move tool, nothing is changed, the arrow will move but no apparent object. thank you!

[@kaylielynn2107]

also when I try to lift the top of the tube at 9:36 it doesn't move either. The object seems to already be "optimized"?

[@kaylielynn2107]

So I found it incase anyone else gets stuck here.. apparently I had "Axis modification" enabled, to turn it off I pressed the L key.

[@amarillavenegasriera2234]

Yeah the guy is a waste of time, don't bother with this tutorial, half of things he doesn't explain how to actually do it.

[@manishmalli13]

Just a doubt. I am using Cinema 4d R20 and here there is no knife tool but I think its modified to something else and I am not able to figure out what it is.

[@manishmalli13]

Ok, gotcha. It has been converted into line cut, plane cut, and loop cut. 22:30 which Chris has done with knife in loop mode is done using loop cut in R20. :)

[@c4dfundamentals]

Yep right! I was to slow ! It’s divided into different tools instead of one...

[@manishmalli13]

Thanks a lot Chris! Using this quarantine time to learn a new software and I am loving this tutorial. May be you should do more tutorials. Would love to learn from you :D

[@manishmalli13]

My last step of making inner rings and moving dots at 7cm isn't happening. Wondering what would be the case!

[@c4dfundamentals]

Mh need a few more informations to help...

[@TWR-drums]

outstanding tutorial but sooooooo sloooooow. good info, great info, but please, move it along.

[@sangjunpark8795]

Where is 3d BEGINNERS COURSE 04

[@npnp6240]

The thread is wrong. It should be real thread. The nut worn't fit to this.

[@c4dfundamentals]

Yeah it’s a quick fake version. Real one is a bit more work. Sometimes u can get away with it though. Should have made it more clear in the video maybe...

[@WillFXdesign]

[@BeTheJookie]

"Stitch and soo"... lol