Extruding PROFILES ALONG PATHS in Blender!

[@TheCGEssentials]

Hi everyone! Let me know what you think about this tool in the comments below! (Or if you have any questions :) )

[@hackercop]

This tool is brilliant! thank you for making this video!

[@TheCGEssentials]

@@starchamber7700 Curious - why say something like this?

[@brucemarshall1439]

Just WOW!!! The depth of this program never ceases to amaze me. I've only been using it for a little over a week but it seems to be almost limitless!! Please keep showing us more "tricks" and thank you!

[@TheCGEssentials]

Will do! :)

[@woodlandcritterpunch]

I'm glad to know blender does have this. I don't understand why they would refer to it as a "bevel" when almost every program I've used with this functionality calls it "sweep." Hopefully in the near future they'll update their curve editing tools and modifiers to remove some of the gotchas here and make ot less hidden

[@TheCGEssentials]

I agree - it's a very odd way of describing the function

[@privateerburrows]

Finally understood the process. I had done this kind of extrusion before by following step by step videos, but never really understood well enough to do it the next time without searching for help again; but I think this time I got it. What was missing for me was the concept that two curves are needed for this. Thanks man!

[@SpacePoodle]

I need to get this off my chest: Your videos are great. Short, concise and to the point. Thank you very much!

[@TheCGEssentials]

Lol - thanks!

[@Rajesh-dq9gw]

You are the best. Been searching for a teacher like you for years Thank you soo much. Keep up the good work.

[@TheCGEssentials]

Happy to help!

[@quantumblur_3145]

just hearing you say "sketchup" gave me so much relief. Trying to go from sketchup to blender has been really stressful. Blender is a nightmare animal where everything is arcane and the Z axis is vertical. Now I can at least partially speak its wretched language.

[@imadethiscomment5663]

Whenever I think I'm getting good at using Blender, there are always things I didn't know you could do that blow my mind! Thanks man, you're awesome.

[@krys5847]

One of the best tutorials I've seen! Very clearly explained, perfect pace, just amazing. Subbed and going to stalk your channel now for more tips. Thank you!

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad you liked it!

[@bobscaricatures8581]

Thank you so much your videos are the best tutorials I've seen for Blender. You're the Daddy!

[@TheShittyBeatles]

This video was super helpful for making a curb. Some things took a little fiddling to understand but you got me there. Thank you so much.

[@KJ7JHN]

This was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for sharing this with us.

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad it was helpful!

[@ronaldbell7429]

I knew this could be done but not how. Thanks for an excellent overview of what's a bit of an esoteric process.

[@fadilcincir8112]

Justin my man! I am very happy to watch one of your videos again :) I grew up with your videos in sketchup now same is going on with blender. Thanks alot!

[@goheenbiswas1901]

You're a real help CG Essentials. Thanks a lot for being there with us noobs

[@TheCGEssentials]

Happy to help!

[@stevannikolovski]

Excellent. Every time i watch i discover new things.

[@GovindSharma-vq5mj]

I just watched 3 of your tutorials and they have just made my life so much easier. Great videos sir. Thank you for the content.

[@TheCGEssentials]

Awesome!

[@synkrotron]

Thank you Justin... I must have watched four videos on this topic and this was the only one that made any sense.

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad it helped!

[@Xizilqou]

I love how you talk, it gives an extra entertainment and comedy value to the educational video

[@Pakilla64]

I can't believe it. I was about to look it up right now, and you JUST uploaded it.

[@TheCGEssentials]

Well now you don't have to! :)

[@CaraDees]

Perfect yet again. Anyone not subscribed... DO IT. His tips are short yet concise. Great teacher!

[@Jake-co7rt]

Awesome! I can see a whole new set of possibilities opening up!

[@addvalue44]

Very useful tutorial, thanks a lot ❤

[@digitalconsciousness]

As a previous Maya user, I was lost and had to search for a video (this one) on how to do it. In Maya, we just go Create>Curve CV Tool, draw it, create a Circle, Surfaces>Extrude and it's done. Very simple. In Blender, to even be able to draw your own curve, you have to create a Bezier first, tab into edit mode, delete it, then you magically have a new Draw Curve tool, draw what you want, tab out, find that profile thing buried in the geometry properties (the fuck?!), then link the circle to it. That's about as bad as ZBrush's interface.

[@tgktgkify]

I know, right?! And why on earth is "extrude along a curve" called "BEVEL"?! It's NOTHING to do with bevelling something!

[@frostwolf618]

First time I subscribe so fast on a channel . My hands couldn't resist , awesome content

[@TheCGEssentials]

Thanks!

[@daleanderson1727]

Fantastic. You always deliver. Thank you.

[@robinhodson9890]

Brilliant! An easy method of performing complex SOR and prism [extrusion] transforms.

[@vizionthing]

Hated the start, stayed to the end, exactly what I needed, you got the sub, bells and like

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad it helped 😃

[@vizionthing]

@@TheCGEssentials Still here after a whole lap of the sun

[@sekiki96]

Blender becomes easier because of you, thanks! :)

[@dez7852]

HHHHWhat's up Justin. Awesome tutorial. I've watched this before but just for some basics. Then I found myself needing to make some baseboard molding and have been searching for this. I think there is another where you grow the extrusion along a path. I need to figure out how to search effectively search within the youtube algo's because I know that there is another one similar to this one. Keep up these videos coming friend, they help tremendously!

[@aphynx816]

Excellent tutorial, easy to understand even as a begginer, you have all my respect!

[@redordead81]

Brilliant video. Your explanations are very clear. Thanks for making and sharing this!

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad it was helpful!

[@yannamare9651]

This a function that I'm using a lot in sketchup, and now thanks to you with this other amazing tutorial, I can adapt it to blender. It looks even so much more powerful than in SU. Thanks

[@terryc1734]

EXCELLENT again ! thank you for taking the time and effort to make this. Probably the best set of tutorials I've seen. Keep up the great work and thank you again ! :)

[@TheTubejunky]

This was a great bit of information to speed up creation of objects! Thank You!

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad it was helpful!

[@1mclv]

Just amazing, thanks for the quick and easy to follow tutorial

[@jamessmith6294]

Thank you for an outstanding tutorial. Clear and succinct.

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad it was helpful!

[@laurenth32]

very nice work, it look like simple but it's so important to know.

[@appidydafoo]

7:02 - Do you know what to do if this middle vertex is necessary for your design and can't be removed? Which is to say, unlike in this instance where they are in plane, my middle vertex in question is offset from the other two vertices on the y-axis. I don't understand why it is distorted and can't "fix" it with alt-s because then the profile is scaled on the z axis as well. Thank you for your videos and any suggestion you might have.

[@josephroiml]

Now that's a really cool technique, never seen it done like this before. Great stuff!

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad you liked it!

[@DodaGarcia]

That was really well explained, thank you

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad it was helpful!

[@jumpbrick]

Thanks for putting this video together :)

[@NebMotion]

lots of interesting things you can do with this technique... thanks for sharing

[@BenLe42]

apply rotation and scale, why do i ALWAYS forget to do that!!! Thanks

[@Alfast-EtLuiMeme]

Really cool tutorial, thank you :)

[@jotchava]

I just found this channel, subbed! Great video too. I used to follow your SketchUp tutorials back in the day and they helped me out a lot too. Thanks!

[@TheCGEssentials]

No problem! :)

[@theonenewmanproject]

I love your videos! Thank you,

[@parkerbelholland1037]

I'm not new to the info, but I really liked the way you explained it. Maybe I missed it, but some explanation on how you created the wall profile piece would've been good.

[@buangagangte9938]

Thanks very much, just what I was looking for trying to model a chair frame with a specific profile.

[@geoffhodgson2492]

Thanks for this. I was really stuck on another tutorial with this one so really pleased you explained it so well. Keep up the good work.

[@FB-eq9vl]

Great Tut mate. When finished, is there a way to keep the final shape and get rid of the curves? Cheers!

[@AviShpayer]

Curves are so confusing. I had lots of trial and error until I found the basic principles that determine the shape of an object using a profile on a curve. It's about basic math geometry. It calculates everything from a view of 2D graphs. So you always need to view the profile from above and model it from the center point and only towards the positive X axis and the positive Y axis to get the desired and expected result. I haven't seen anyone talk about it. In the Blender documentation they don't show the axis, they just write it as a text comment: "Make sure the shape you want to extrude is in the Object’s local XY plane. If it is in the local XZ or YZ plane, it will be reduced to a line when it is projected to the local XY plane. Because of this, the extruded shape will be a flat plane."

[@joeabstractjoe]

You're a great tutor! Thanks for sharing your knowledge. 🎶🎸🎶👏👏👏

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad it was helpful!

[@magpiemagpie6607]

It was interesting, you often make interesting tutorials. Keep going.

[@TheCGEssentials]

Thanks a lot!

[@MarcosBaldin]

Great tutorial! Thanks.

[@Draft_Tech]

Well done sir...this is what i want...great tutorial..

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad you liked it!

[@zvromero74]

Thanks, you save me.... i was getting anxious, because i was just finding solutions with "add-ons" but it was because the loft was along with multiple shapes

[@TonyInTownNZ]

Bloody Marvellous! Now I can make things quicker in Blender. Thanks heaps once again.

[@TheCGEssentials]

Happy to help!

[@r-max4156]

can you make a video on animating bar chart ?

[@JustinDeane222]

Terrific! Is there an option to sweep along two guide rails from one profile, like a circle to different profile, say, a square?

[@AZTECMAN]

Juicy. Thanks for the tech knowledge

[@blood.mirror]

How did you make the shape you used as the profile for the curve you built from the plane?

[@drcolin101]

Awesome info, it is extremely helpful thanks

[@ChrisAirey1]

Great and simple explanations👌. A video explaining drawing with curves would be really helpful too👍

[@TheCGEssentials]

Hmmm...I probably do need to do something dedicated to curves in the future

[@frame76films]

Great explanation. Cheers 👍

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad it was helpful!

[@navod3d]

Thank you for this. Exactly what I needed to know

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad it was helpful!

[@RaiHari6426]

Great Video

[@TheCGEssentials]

Thanks!

[@pixel-ink]

Also, if you run into the "issue" when doing corners when you have no points in between the corner. Add two segment (points) on each side of the corner, real close. Or the best way to fix the issue on this video or with corners, is switch the shape to 2D and not 3D.

[@agnichatian]

Nice Explanation. So, say I made a 'vase' like at near the end of this video. How can I place objects onto it's surface, say 2 rings of decorative flowers (stars). But in such a way that if I edit the generating curves, the decorations 'stick' to the surface ?

[@TheCGEssentials]

There's probably a few ways to do this, but likely you'd end up converting it to a mesh, then using vertex groups or arrays or something to place them. Probably a few ways to do this

[@Crimsin19937]

Nice! Follow me is the only thing from sketchup I wish was in blender!

[@gregorymiles8983]

You’re a legend sir

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad I could help!

[@Banner_Bearer_of_Eternity]

Thanks! Just what I needed.

[@integragemi7234]

same as sketchup but withut generate those extra faces.cool

[@bensadler5513]

This is such a helpful video -- thank you!

[@RajeshJustaguy]

I have a bit of trouble with bottles or vases the moment the original curve is not a circle but a flower shape for example. I cant close out the bottle as the geometry ends up criss crossing each other..

[@thajmulhussain4113]

nice tutorial.it is ok rectangle or square but when using an arch wall it does not come correctly. did you try for the arch wall?

[@TheCGEssentials]

I don't understand what you mean by "arch wall"

[@thajmulhussain4113]

@@TheCGEssentials sorry, i am trying to say. you have only used this profile for the normal wall. how about the arch side(i mean some building has an arch opening at the front side).i hope you understand what I am saying.

[@jonjoem-walton7381]

Yes, just yes! I've been trying to figure out why I couldn't select an object for ages!

[@Renzsu]

Is there a way to subdivide the path, but not the cross section? In your example around 5 mins in, you have quite a well defined cross section, but a rough path curve. Now, imagine wanting to smooth that path curve (for example when doing window trim on car windows that have subdivision modifiers on them). If I apply a sub-d modifier on the resulting object, I lose all definition in the profile and it would take more work defining sharp edges in the mesh (and I would lose the history on the path object).

[@jump3750]

thank you so much, this video was realy helpfull

[@frankwas586]

Great tutorial. Exactly what I was looking for. 🙏

[@Rajesh-dq9gw]

With you teaching I'm building my school in blender.

[@image2punchtutorial36]

Thank you. This is very useful :)

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad it was helpful!

[@djmnx01]

Excellent!!

[@TheCGEssentials]

Thanks! :)

[@terughh]

Super 👍 Thanks 🙏

[@danosdotnl]

easier than grasshopper (and anything else), great thanks!

[@jackjackson1157]

Excellent video! So, 3.0 has changed some of this, made it a little easier. However, if you aren't familiar with the technique, I recommend that you still watch this all the way through. Adding this to your repertoire will definitely up your blending game! Thanks CGE!

[@TheCGEssentials]

:)

[@bluemaple3191]

is it possible to rig the spline to skeleton

[@twistedwizardry5153]

Any ideas how you could animate an arrow along a path where the tube would be extruding but the head of the arrow would stay out front? Thanks for this video!

[@rosehwangssaem]

1:52 circle - object - convert to - curve

[@RamasolaProductions]

So helpful! I was findings ways to transition from MAX to blender and this is one of the things I was looking for! Thanks for your tutorials. Sub'd!

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad it helped!

[@itotallyagreewithyou3451]

Great video! You have helped me out with Fusion 360 many times, and now you even helped me out with Blender haha Thanks for always saving my ass! Maybe i'll run into you for some other software aswell in the future hahah Have a great day! edit: Now i subbed to this channel aswell!

[@dertobbe1176]

Ok it works for seamless loops. But what if you want to build a maze?

[@vavalexus]

But in the corners you have the distorted shape/profile. Try the circle as a profile and look at the corners (where the path turns). In your case it looks fine because the shape is closed and it is not noticable that the sapes in the corners are off. When you start with the open path turning say 90 degrees, it will be obvious. That's the problem in blender. People solve it with some addtional nodes. I wish it was some standart tool.

[@wolskye]

thanks man, really helpful

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad it helped!

[@Kumodot]

Thanks for the tutorial. Curve draw workflow in painter is SO painful compared with other software. They should rebuild this. It's very weird and not intuitive at all. Thanks for the video !

[@MrMad1966sChannel]

I'm sure I've watched one of your videos which address's an issue I am having but can not find it again. When using this extrude along a path using a profile as soon as I extrude my source curve to change direction I get a tapering effect happening.. Can you tell me which of your videos has the solution in please. I think you were extruding a simple square when you talk about why this occurs..

[@mitchowk]

can you convert the edited path back into a mesh after? and use it as an object?

[@thebasicmaterialsproject1892]

pretty cool

[@Naecofranck]

Hello, exact what i need, thanks ! BUT : i have a factor not equal to 1. I mean, i want to do that with a square on a open curve, and the square size is 2 by 2, but the extrusion is 35 by 35. Do you know where i can fix this factor ?

[@aviralkrishna9756]

finally the info I needed!!. Thanks!

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad I could help!