I wanted to CNC some faces, or gargoyles out of oak, and was trying to find a way to do this in Rhino. But after seeing some tutorials with Rhino 5 and T-Splines, that also used Zbrush to add some fine detail. This is my test: First I modelled a North Wind style face (quickly in ZBrush) at a high …

[image] hifred: It’s however very simple to build oneself a poor mans GoZ with Rhino so that you can quickly juggle back and forth geometry between Rhino and Zbrush so that you can keep track of scale. Just save this snippet as GoRhino.txt and drop it it into ‘ZStartup\ZPlugs’ in the Zbrush inst…

[image] cdordoni: Unfortunately this IS the heart of the difficulty with using ZBrush with real world and manufacturing concerns. There needs to be an absolute coordinate system. No. One has to deal with this problem with every mesh modeller which uses subdivision, not just Zbrush. Ok, you c…

[image] hifred: No.One has to deal with this problem with every mesh modeller which uses subdivision, not just Zbrush. Ok, you can measure in many mesh modellers, but this only is half way meaningful in classic polygon modelling (without subdivision). As soon as one subdivides (and that is the h…

[image] jean77flip: please check out my tutorial i cover the entire zbrush / rhino pipeline I just signed up for Digital Tutors to go through the ZBrush training and I saw the series on the Rhino/ZBrush workflow. It looks like it will be very helpful. Once I go through some of the ZBrush bas…

[image] cdordoni: I can flatten the mesh and remove the subdivision and measure if need to in another app. It would be convenient if that were possible in ZBrush. Basic measuring of distances is available inside Zbrush for quite some time already and one can also set the model size .

Transpose is useful for a measuring tool under certain circumstances, I agree However, the value would be specific to a model and not a universal constant, so it would have to be have to recalculated for every model, and when you make a change to the existing model, like a size change that would a…

I have transpose set to measure accurately in mms. It works consistently with all of my models. I also have a 1mm cube and other frequently used sizes and shapes saved with my tools, so I can bring them in to double check my models. Everything I do is for manufacture, but it all gets printed out, …

[image] bheller: I have transpose set to measure accurately in mms. It works consistently with all of my models.I also have a 1mm cube and other frequently used sizes and shapes saved with my tools, so I can bring them in to double check my models. Do you still need use the 3D Print Exporter …

One thing you might need is a Wacom tablet or Cintiq, to better articulate your movements within Zbrush. Also Zbrush just updated to version 4R7 with an enhanced feature set .

I usually bring in an object that is the right height and just match it… If the figure has to fit in a specific size box I go to Rhino to make a box with the right dimensions and bring that in. If exact size matters I can measure with 3D print exporter and adjust with the size slider under deforma…

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See this recent topic to see why:

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