Pot, meet kettle

    This week's assignment was fun to work on, but figuring out some of the parts was such a pain to try and do. It started out like one of my nightmares, deceptively easy, and it ended like I was stuck running in the same spot and couldn't move forward anymore, no matter how hard I tried. There were things I already knew how to do, putting the picture, making the outline, Boolean unions and differences.

    But I digress, building the main part of the body was straightforward, tracing the vague outline, using the revolve tool (which I had never used before) to make the actual shape and bam, beaker container-looking thing was done and over, time to move on to the next segment. There was a tiny detail added, with the change of materials between the main body of the kettle and the bottom of it that sits on the burner.

    I forgot to take screenshots of the spout as I was working on it, but that is the part that I did next. The one thing I did figure out, that honestly I hadn't paid attention to is that you can change the value of the fillet you apply to a curve, which made the model look super cool in my opinion, since it didn't look identical of both ends of the curve. The pipe tool that we had to use, kind of freaked me out at first since it automatically goes to where the cursor is, it made it gigantic on one end at first and then there was the whole placing the ends at the proper place and whatnot, but in the end it did turn out really nice.

    

    I have to admit, working on the handle was by far my favorite, since it put together some of the same concepts as the spout, and the rounding out those edges made it look so nice. Tracing the image, at first I thought it might be too short, but I think it ended up being the perfect size for what I wanted it to look like. Even though this was my favorite, there was still a tiny bit of frustration involved, the fillets for the bottom specifically kept separating from the overall shape, I don't think I've managed to fix it yet either.

    Making the cap was also simple, the spare was a bit odd to work with though, so there was a part that was a little wonky before I could shift it a bit with the gumball thing turned on. The little lip where the lid was supposed to sit on wasn't as easy as the lid itself, I fixed the thing that went wrong, but honestly I still don't understand what actually happened. I off set the curve and it went fine, I did the extend surface and that went mostly fine, the edges were slightly off center, when I went to place it where the cap would go, there was still one side that would stick out slightly, it took so many tiny adjustments for it to fit in properly.

    This stupid handle has tested the limits if my patience. No matter what I did nothing was working, I did the the thing with the pipe, nothing. The thing with the lines and the multipipe, nothing. I tried the first thing so many times, I lost could and nothing worked. I gave myself a headache trying to figure it out, and the only thing I figured out was that it sucked. 

    I have no idea why, but every single time I tried to split the three original pipes, it split them in three, the top half was one part, and the bottom ended up being two, I tried sooooooo many times and it just would not cooperate, if I tried to to the blend thing on the one, the only thing that happened was the weird cup thing. I tried flipping them so the part that was half would be the thing I needed to connect, but nope that didn't work. I tried joining those two bottom piece but that also did absolutely nothing. Then when I tried the multipipe it was super blocky, and the outside part of the handle on that y shaped part, was sunken in, I also tried just about everything, I moved the center point, the part that connected to the pot was shorted, lengthened, the same line at the center I made to stick out from the center, and that was when I decided to give up for the foreseeable future and ask for help in class.

    One of the last things I did was double check all of the fillet edges that I had to do, and I think the nicest looking one, is this one up here, the part that simulates the welding on the actual pot, I think it's really cool how close you can get detail-wise when working on Rhino, and it is something that I would like to keep experimenting with as I move forward.