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5 Spoke Wheel

Author: Toby Bamford Author's URL: www.corrosion-3d.co.uk/home.html More by this author

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Make a cylinder with the settings of picture 1 and picture 2

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Then convert to an editable mesh by right clicking

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Select the outside polygons (squares) but missing one each time

You should have 5 squares selected

Rotate with the tool at the bottom (see pic)

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Then scroll down the editable mesh menu and tyoe 100 into extrude THEN -4 into bevel

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Select the middle polygon by clicking on it

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Type into the extrude box -0.1 and THEN into bevel -10

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Extrude -10 THEN bevel -4

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Then extrude -0.1 THEN bevel -12

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Extrude 6 THEN bevel -2

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Select the ends of the spokes and extrude 4 THEN bevel 2

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Then apply a mesh smooth by clicking on the blue rainbow, scrolling down the modifier list and selecting Mesh smooth

Then set Sub division mode to Classic

And Iterations to 2

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You should have a pic like this now

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Make a tube with a radius1 of 140 a radius 2 of 150 and height as 100

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Then apply a mesh smooth

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Then duplicate but scale it to the size of this picture

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Then make 2 more duplicates but thin and put on each side of the wheel

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Finished

Now give it a nice material and your done, Hit Render and put to your settings you want