The Fastest Way to Model Pipe Joints and Intersections in Blender 2.8 (Not Curves) Tutorial

Most pipe modeling I've seen is done with curves, but now, thanks to 2.8, it's faster and more efficient to just use the bridge edge loops and spin tools. Also, I show how to make joints using edit mode booleans.

[DrTheRich]

Holy moly 11 years in blender and still didn't know you could make a curve with bridge edge loops. Blender keeps surprising me every time

[voxthesergal]

Look, I've been doin' pipes via lines and beziers my whole 7 years, and it wasn't until I wanted to make a Y-shaped pipe that I googled this. HOLY hell you made my life SO MUCH EASIER man.

[arianullah]

Please do more of these tips, I wish I had learned this a few months earlier. Thanks for the tips.

[ShuyaTheDark]

I was going to complain that 10 minutes was not fast, but the whole video had very valuable information. Thanks!

[DustyScreensaver]

So glad 2.8 is a stepping stone to get away from the abundance of outdated tutorials.

[lacai]

Like 20 years I last time fired up Blender! That looks easy and perfect what im planning, sure Will probably rewind this video 537310 times while learning!
Missed my target by a lot! learned this trick in a hour! Great video! basically first time blender user!

[TheDeepDiveOriginal]

Outstanding explanation, but dude, nothing can beat curves and you know it )

[sambowen]

Another thing to check out, the built in plugin, extra objects. Under add mesh, it adds a menu called mechanical. In there it had options for 5 different pipe joints. Not sure if it's in 2.80 yet or not though.

I was also going to mention using spin, but then saw you mentioned it. It is a good option I think, but you have to keep setting the cursor where you want it.

[jimsin]

If only I'd seen this when I started a few months ago, I'd have saved soooo much time! Thank you.

[mycroft]

Many thanks.Been looking for a good way to do pipes. Need to run a bunch of pipes along a surface in a group and have them branch off to different endpoints. Life saver!

[cryscameron]

thank you a ton! i watch 5 other tutorials last night trying to fix a problem and you solved it in a few minutes flat! ;)

[ELBARTOmovies]

That's the tutorial I needed. Switched from Maya to Blender since 2.8 to have a free alternative. The Blender UI is on point. 👌

[clex]

Every time he does anything: “But wait- There’s more”

[thebirdhasbeencharged]

Finally some content instead of the lazy "classics"

[yourfriendlygamedev]

Sick. I had been using bridge edge loops, but the spin tool is actually super useful. Cheers!

[mezzotint]

If I consider, what crazy workarounds there are on youtube with this Which don't work for me. This is so great, especially with the spin tool. Thanks.

[mikebennewitz]

I did not know you could boolean like that within a mesh. that's awesome.

Very good tutorial on so many things. What do you think of the new pipe addon to the Fluent plugin?

[olliveraira]

Actual solutions at: 5:50

Well done stretching this video to past 10 mins

[Ophelos]

It's great to see more tips coming out for Blender 2.8. Thank you for this.