Did anyone else find that the tetras were really difficult to make? I thought they would be so easy… I made the parts in Inventor, then assembled them. Pieces would intersect wrong, or the angles weren’t right, so I’d tweak one end, and the other would get messed up.
Then I added the Inventor to Max pluggin, and imported the files. They would look fine untill I re-opened the Max file, and there would be a weird crease in the objects. So I fixed them in Inventor, or at least thought I did, but the problem happened again. I finally solved it by welding all of the vertices then applying the smooth modifier.
that looks really good, I’m not sure but it looks the like the vision tetra is smaller then the regular one. I might just be blind/stupid though. I wish i could make something like those.
I believe you might be half right. While I did follow the measurements given by FIRST, now that I look at it, the plastic on the vision tetra is a little thinner then it should be. That’s easy enough to fix.
Since I based these off of Petek’s model, I’d be happy to share them with anyone who wants them. I don’t have a place to store the files at the moment, but can email anyone who PM’s me with a request for either the max or inventor files.