I did the Seamless Panel tutorial last week and realized that it ends up begging the question "how do I make a seamless FRAME". Building on that tutorial, here is one method to create such a panel.
The resulting frame, which you can download from here, has a couple shortcomings. Namely, the corner conditions don't clean up nicely. This is ok for most situations, but gets a little funky in extreme conditions. The nice thing is that it's really easy to control thickness and height of the mullion.
There's another method that uses a void and has much cleaner edges, but it is harder to control the thickness of the mullions. The creation of this one is a little more involved, so I'm not doing a tutorial yet, but here is the file for download. One thing you'll notice is that the mullion thickness is tied to the size of the panel.
The resulting frame, which you can download from here, has a couple shortcomings. Namely, the corner conditions don't clean up nicely. This is ok for most situations, but gets a little funky in extreme conditions. The nice thing is that it's really easy to control thickness and height of the mullion.
There's another method that uses a void and has much cleaner edges, but it is harder to control the thickness of the mullions. The creation of this one is a little more involved, so I'm not doing a tutorial yet, but here is the file for download. One thing you'll notice is that the mullion thickness is tied to the size of the panel.
Zach, another cool post. thanks (couldn't get the download links to work)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the QA Dave . . . links are back up now
ReplyDeleteZach, this is perfect. thank you. I'm sorry I didn't see it earlier!
ReplyDeleteHello, I can't download the file can you please fix it? Thanks! GREAT GREAT POST!
ReplyDeleteHi, sorry I shut down the account that housed these files a couple years ago, not sure what I did with the original files. I'll keep looking, but I'm not hopeful
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