Work from earlier digital systems lessons part 1 - The Table

 Modelling a table was really just to introduce us to the basics of Maya.

Notes from class

Create cube

Snap the pivot point to one of the top corners of the cube.

-Press insert

-move while holding v

-Press insert again

Snap pivot with the corner of the desk.

Scale leg till level with grid

Duplicate (ctrl+D) and move each leg to other corners

Change rotations to match

Edge loops are needed to retain sharp edges when objects are smoothed

Edit Mesh > insert edge loop tool

Curve Tool

create > CV curve tool

plot points on a 2D plane around the centre line

Select surface in the drop down menu

surfaces > revolve (the little square for the options)

-check axis being used

-Output geometry as polygon

-quads

-control points

Check for non-quads

Table after first week

For a first try I was fairly happy with this, however the table legs and scale really needs to be addressed and they really just don't work.