Fun cutter excercise

Hey folks, I just wanted to put together a quick demo of how you can create cutters with the new KIT OPS PRO feature.

For those of you who may be wondering, cutters are objects that are used to Boolean cut into other objects and KIT OPS makes it very easy to just drag them onto a target object.

Using a variety of cutters is a great way to explore different kinds of interesting shapes. There are many that come standard with KIT OPS PRO and there are more in DESIGN MAGIC but you may want to consider creating your own library of cutters.

There are some workflows in this video that may be of interest. First off, there is this Auto mirror add-on that comes with Blender that you need to enable in prefs and it not only facilitates modeling on one half or one quarter of your object, but it also cuts it up as well. Definitely worth taking a look at.

And one of the other notable tricks is understanding that by right clicking on an object in blender you can quickly create a cutter in KIT OPS. But, in order to designate it as a cutter, you need to make sure that it has the viewport display type of wireframe. Then KIT OPS will automatically convert it into a cutter and create a thumbnail for you. KIT OPS ships with an add-on that does this automatically for you.

And lastly, something I picked up recently that I think is a pretty cool trick. As many of you know adding a bevel at the end of a modifier stack on a very complex object sometimes will not show a bevel at all. This is because the default bevel limit is set in a way so that it will only maximize a bevel dimension for the tiniest bevel on a model.

So if it is not possible to put a bevel on the tiniest part of an object then that same lack of a bevel will occur throughout the object. The goal is to keep the bevel the same dimension throughout the whole object.

But if you set the bevel to percentage instead of width, then the tiny parts that get no bevel are fine, but the larger parts can actually receive a bevel. I know it sounds a bit complicated, but check out the video and hopefully you'll understand what I'm talking about.

While this video is not as polished as some others, I am wondering if it's too coarse or doesn't explain things well enough? Please let me know in the comments if this type of video works for you. Thanks.