how to make: Bolts

[Jcollins]

Im working on a project that has a steel plate design and I tried using the gem tutorial all the ones from about 25 pages back to current and then reducing the size.. but nothing really comes out appropriate...Im trying to make a hexagonal bolt head that would screw down onto a steel plate..

anyone have a good way to handle this ?

its going on a logo for a website.

thanks again,

JC

[ZizOiz]

Which angle is it from?

[Curmudgeon]

There's a polygon/stars plugin you can use to render a hexagonal shape (6 vertices)...the easiest way to make a hexagon

[LFC4EVER]

This should help with making it look more realistic and metal like.

[Myrddin]

Also, the Shape3D plugin could be of assistance for utmost perspective realism. I must emphasise 'perspective' in that the plugin can only work with what you give it - it can't make a bolt look photo-realistic by willing it to do so. The Force does not exist .

Tutorials such as the one linked to by LFC4EVER will help greatly. Or, if you wish to draw your bolt manually (as in, no Shape3D), then the advice of Curmudgeon will be one part of your task ahead.

[Curmudgeon]

when they mentioned a steel plate with the hex bolts, in my mind I pictured just that...a steel plate with only the hex heads of the bolts showing, thus, the information I provided

something like this is what I had in mind:

[Myrddin]

Ah, I read it as the steel plate was an example of the type of bolt, hence 'that would screw down onto a steel plate', not 'that is screwed down onto a steel plate'.

Well, we've given suggestions for either outcome, so it doesn't matter that much. Saying that, this only proves we need example images .

[Jcollins]

Curmudgeon has it spot on what I was looking for.

my response was a bit slow... Im a defense contractor... so my schedule is horrible

[Ash]

Then use the polygon/stars plugin as eveyone talked about to make the shape.

And use my 3d metal/chrome tut if you wanna make the shape 3d-ish like LFC4EVER said.

Good luck!