Making a Pen With Polygon Modelling Part 6

10. Now Go edit Polygons>Extrude Face Again, and use the Blue arrow to extrude the face outward now. And again rotate it so that it is approx. level with the clip.

11. Now Extrude Face again (Edit polygons>Extrude face) and Pull the Blue arrow Along the Pen Clip until the Pen Clip Starts to Curve Inward.

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12. Edit polygons>Extrude face, and line it up with the End of the Pen Clip, Use the Rotation Manipulator to Model the faces in correspondence with the Pen Clip. Do this over and over until you're at the end of the Pen Clip. Just extrude, and change the rotation, Extrude again Change the Rotation. In this particular situation, we will only need to rotate on the X axis, so only use the Red Line in the Rotation Manipulator to Rotate the Faces. After a little bit of work Your Pen Cap should look like this...

13. OK! Last step is to build the pen Cap for smoothing. We are going to cut some faces so that we can get hard edges. Right on, so, Edit Polygons>Split Edge Ring Tool.

Press 5 on your keyboard so that you are in shaded mode, and With the Split Edge Ring Tool Selected Click on a Blue Horizontal Line And LMB Click and hold and drag it to where you would like to place it. So do the Following Cuts, the ones you should have are highlighted in Orange.

For the One in the Side View, where the cut goes from the Top of the Cap down along the Pen Clip just Click where the red Circle is.

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Now Go into the Persp View port and go to the tip of the pen cap like the picture below, and make sure you still have the Split End Ring tool selected, no click the Split Edge Ring Tool Where there are the Red dots, you may have to zoom in a fair amount (Apple + RM; ALT+RMB) to select the proper line.

Also in the inside of the Pen Cap you need a Cut, see the picture below.

14. There we go the Model of the Pen and Pen Cap is complete! Now to Smooth the Pen Cap, Right click on a Line on the Pen Cap and Hold and go to Object mode, Make sure the Pen Cap is selected, and go Polygons>Smooth, And in the option box Under polysmooth node under INPUTS Change the divisions to 2. To change the Cap or the pen to un-smoothed state, change the Divisions to 0.

There you go you have a pen and a pen Cap! Maybe in the next Tutorial I will teach you how to do a Good Efficient Render of it, but for now, here's a Quick little Render I did.

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I will see how the Response on this Tutorial is, and judge if I will make another or not. I love helping out any way I can, so if This Tutorial Helped you, Please tell me. You Can E-mail me at rotarypwr@gmail.com. Thanks a lot, and hope you had as much fun learning how to do a simple model, as I did writing this Tutorial for you!