{"id":121,"date":"2015-08-02T12:01:18","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T12:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tgaw.com\/wp\/?p=121"},"modified":"2015-08-02T12:01:18","modified_gmt":"2015-08-02T12:01:18","slug":"print-diary-july-29th-monarch-butterfly-and-glowing-cthulhu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tgaw.com\/wp\/print-diary-july-29th-monarch-butterfly-and-glowing-cthulhu\/","title":{"rendered":"Print Diary – July 29th – Monarch Butterfly and Glowing Cthulhu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victory with the Monarch Butterfly<\/strong>
\nAs I mentioned yesterday<\/a>, I was having some trouble adapting the Public Domain Monarch Butterfly model by Liz Havlin<\/a>. Although I have been 3D modeling for about 18 months, I was having some trouble achieving what I wanted– I wanted the holes of the butterfly to not be holes. I wanted the sections I wanted to be orange to be 2mm high and the sections I wanted to be white to be 2.3 mm high.
\nUnfortunately, I was introducing all sorts of manifold issues along the way. One day, I may look back on this and laugh at myself and my “silly ways”, but for now here’s what I ended up doing that actually worked for me.<\/p>\n

I was able to easily make a solid butterfly that I extruded up to 2mm high– so I had my orange all set. For the white, I:<\/p>\n

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  1. Highlighted the vertices of the hole I wanted to fill.<\/li>\n
  2. Hit the Duplicate button to make copies of those vertices.
    \n    \"Monarch<\/a>