Hello everyone welcome back to PJ Chen Design channel. Today we would like to
talk about this cross pendant. There are many different way to make it but
especially I would like to talk about how to get the surface nice smooth and
puffy. I will show you a couple other ways and talk about the pros and cons on
making those pendants. Are you ready? Let's get started.
Because I'm going to use today is about three by four. There are many different type of cross
especially if it's really religion specific, you may want to find online for
the specific proportion, but what I like to do here is about 3x4, and we
use the rectangular tool to create 2 rectangles, and all we need to like
rectangle and all we need to do is trim the curves in between, and let's move
this one back to the center. Let's used a move tool and move it
back to the zero point. Alright so the first way to make it really simple. you
can make it into a solid by just pick up the curve you have. Go into the solid and
then you can extrude a planar curve. Okay so once you have it, you can have any
thickness that you want. And all you need to do is giving a little bit radius.
So let's say we want to have a radius "1", and you can have something like this.
so that's the first one, alright, really simple one but it look really stiff.
Alright, and if we set a stone on it. It doesn't look good. We want to have
something a little bit puffy so maybe I'm thinking the way to make it puffy I
can have, I can create an arc, let's make sure that my mid
point is on. Midpoint here, midpoint here. and we want to go.... Let's say for whatever
high that you like. So let's say some somewhere there.
And another one we want to go here to here and going up there. Alright so
something like this, and then you can adjust it if you wanted....let's say... we wanted
to go this curve more puffy on that way, and this more, let me hide this one, it's
more tapered in this way. so I'm gonna move those two going here, or something
like that. You can create whatever you like here. but the only problem that I'm
seeing here is when I creating a surface with those two curves, for example the
curve that I have. I'm going to "surface- extrude- straight" and I want to make
sure "both=yes", and then we wanna snapping into here. The same thing we're
gonna do with this one, snapping into there Overall, it doesn't look like much of
a problem we can close this really quick. But I'm going to enlarge the perspective,
then you can see something like this. The edges. They doesn't correspond
with the other one. So that you have is a gap here and there.
Alright so it doesn't look too good for what we have, but I just want to make it
and put it on this side as the comparison
so let me complete this cross what we can do is I can make another curve here
another curve here, and make sure I join those two curves and join those two
curves.Alright so again we are going to the
solid tool- extruded planar curve- Straight. Make sure "both=yes" and
this one we can have it this (way). Alright so you can see if that's your design is
actually perfect. You know you want to have a little bit gap there, so what we
need to do is boolean unit those two. Then you have another type of the cross.
and again this is not what I am looking for. I'm just put it there as a
comparison for you. so we have cross 1 and
we have cross 2 here for the comparison. What I'd like to do is to
make something really nice and puffy. It's a continuous surface like a first
one, but it has the pump on the top and then it is a continuous surface so it's
not breaking here okay. Alright so the way I'm going to do. I
need to make a puffy surface first. Alright so let's go to the top view let me
hide those two. Alright so what I like to do on the top view. I'm going to use the
the rectangle tool. and then this is a conic corner. so right click on your
mouse. The first corner we're going to snapping into here, the
second corner is here. And we want to make something a little bit rounded, so
look nicer. Maybe turn off my grid snip so somewhere about this okay. So that's
first. The second, we need to find our where's the center of the rectangle.
You can see there's a point right there. but if you want to be exact we can go
ahead to use the analyze tool, and there's a mass property, and you can find
the area central here. So we click on this curve, and really quickly you see
that dot over there okay. So we're gonna move everybody to the
center. It's just easier for me to model, if I can have the things aligned to the
zero point. Alright so I kind of temporary to hide this one. so it's not
bother us and I may need to have it a little bit bigger. Look like this. Because
Our cross need to be inside of the shape. Because we need to cut it off
later. Alright so I'm gonna hide the cross first, and put this into other
layer. and hide it. Alright so now what we need
to do is we need to decide how high do we wanted to have. so let's say I want to
have roughly about 8 millimeter there. okay I'm gonna put a little tab, at my
front view, we can see that, there is a little tab here and another tab is somewhere here,
right at a end point, so for those two, I'm going to use the blend tool here,
and we want to blend from this one to that one. Okay so you get this one right
there. Now once we got that, we want to use the command to create a surface. It's
under the surface and it's called "rail revolve" so what we do is we pick up this
as our profile, this is a rail, and we want to go from here to here. so that's
how we creating this surface. Okay now, with this surface, what we need to do is
bring back our cross, which I just hide it. so that's show up the object, and
let's take a look on the top view. So now we have this cross. All we need to do is
use that cross to trim the extra off. Alright so now you see is, this is really
nice smooth surface right there. okay and you can create a thicknesses if
you want to. or you can... like the distance that I have here, I can also
creating things in between, and the very easy way is you're actually going to
extruded that curve straight, and we don't need both sides. we just need the one
going one side. And then we want to make sure is higher
than that surface. Okay now we want to use this surface to trim off the surface
right there. So now we have a thickness there. All you need to do is making sure
that you join them, and then you can use the "cap" command to cap it since the
button is flat. Alright so this will be the cross that we have as a basic. After
that we can set the stone on the top of it, but we may also alter this a little
bit more. Sometimes for men's jewelry you wanted doing some chamfer edges because
that make it look masculine. So let's say we want to set it a certain dimension. Let
me put it 1.5, and we want to choose all of them so now we can have a
completely different look of the cross. and once you have done you can go ahead
to do the stone setting on the top. The stone setting part as for the bead setting
you can see my other video showing here and I will put the link below in the
description, so you know how to do the stone setting for the top and then you
can have something look like this. I hope you enjoy the video please like and
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you have any suggestion. Or any other things you would like to learn. I will
try to make a video for you. Thank you for watching see you next Monday