Pipes and Wires

1. First select your Bezier Spline Tool:

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2. If you have ever worked with the pen tool in photoshop, this is basically the same tool except with 3 dimensions.  Switch to your 4 port view by clicking F5:

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3. Click anywhere in one of the 4 ports to create a point.  Click again in a different port to make another point.  Continue clicking in different view ports until you have a jumbled structure like so:

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4. This Spline is the basic structure that our wire/pipe will lie on.  Now we need to define what the outline of the structure is going to look like.  To do this, we need to create a circle Spline Primitive:

image 4

5. In the attributes, change the size to around 15.  This will affect the radius of our pipe/wire to 15:

image 5

6. Now we need a way of connecting these two splines.  To go about this, we will use a type of nurbs known as Sweep Nurbs, which is a kind of hybrid of Extrude nurbs and Lathe nurbs.  Add a Sweep NURBS Object to your scene (Objects > NURBS > Sweep NURBS):

image 6

7. Now time for connecting the two Splines using the Sweep Nurbs.  To do this, drag both of the objects underneath the Sweep Nurbs so that the Circle lies on top:

image 7

And your done!  Here is my scene after a few modifications with materials and lighting:

Pipes and Wires Tutorial: Final Result

Good Luck!


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