... I've really gotta stop pressing CTRL + R to create a loop cut whilst YT is the active window.

13:02 - When he said lets enter into clean up mode, he got a complete mesh to work with and I just had lines and not a complete mesh. My dumb-ass couldn't figure out what the issue was for about 15 minutes. You need to uncheck the 'optimal Display' option under your subsurface modifier to view the entire mesh.

Guys I am doing this tutorial in 2024 after finishing the 4.0 donut tutorial and honestly this is such a good tutorial and it has aged very well. I have ran into problems due to differences in blender versions but have tried my best to solve them and succeeded! Thank you Guru and all the people in the comments who helped me with shortcuts and tips for future blender versions !!!

Hey guys my "PC" still rendering the dounts and cup how you guys doing

3:44 Me: *clicking "M"* Blender: "removed 66 vertices" Me: 0_0

3:38 / 4:38 / 8:38 The new shortcut for merging duplicate vertices on Blender 2.83+ is now only M, while Alt+M does the inverse operation (split). This was done because it is such a common shortcut that it got a brand new, easier shortcut just for that and because the Alt key is usually used to invert the command, so there's that.

18:48 for those who want to set the orange dot in the rotation to the *bottom* of the chair leg: 1. in your toolbar (hot key: t) select the second icon (''cursor'') 2. left click the bottom of the chair leg so that the cursor gets fixed there 3. in object mode, make sure the mesh is selected, and then right click 4. select ''set origin'' > ''origin to 3d cursor'' done, you can rotate around that point

I'm kinda new at this so at around 12:27 I got super confused about how his 4 vertices became a face. Turns out if you select all the vertices, and right-click, there should be an option called New edge/face from vertices (or just hit the F key). Hope this helps the other noobs out there. :)

Me, looking at the single chair leg I made: Babe you are soooo beautiful.

*blender guru:* Press _Alt+M_ to merge by distance. *blender 2.83:* I'm about to ruin this man's whole tutorial series. (it's gonna be just _M_ for merge ;) )

4:22 dissolving didn't do anything cause u didn't make the edge a part of the mesh u just made an extra edge overlapping the face u can tell that when u select the face it's not divided in two tho u can do that by pressing "J" instead of "F"

18:56 If you want to resize your chair but it is leaving the bottom line and increasing from all the sides, that's because the origin of your leg chair (small orange dot) is not at the bottom of the front leg (see Andrew's). To do that, follow these steps: 1. Put your 3D cursor at the base of the front leg, by holding Shift and then Right-clicking at that *specific place* . I will suggest that the *specific place* to put the 3D cursor should be at the midpoint of the front leg's base from "inside" i.e., by zooming in the mesh. 2. Tap on the chair, right-click > Set-Origin > Origin to 3D Cursor. Now you can re-move the 3D cursor back to where it was while your chair's origin will stay at the selected place. Now you can resize your chair with ease. PS: Make sure that you resize only on the X-axis (or at whatever axis your thickness lies), otherwise your chair will go beyond the reference image's scale.

If anyone's wondering how Blender Guru's chair is so flat, He unselected the 'display in Edit Mode' button on the Subdivision Surface modifier.

if having trouble doing the bevel command to flatten the curved part at 6:00 I think its because for newer versions of blender the mirror modifier actually duplicates the object across the 3D cursor,. Instead of doing those steps in the last video where he made a loop cut down the middle you're going to actually need to add that loop cut. Also he only selects one side of the vertices and you're going to need to select both. The same goes for 8:30 where he's merging vertices you're going to need to do the same on both again.

If anyone is having trouble seeing all the vertices and edges, go to modifier settings and in sub surf setting uncheck the optimal display option.

For the rotated object part, it's alot easier to double tap the direction you want it to go, so one z is global, a second z is local, much faster

18:48 if you go to rotate or scale and the leg splits in 2, this is from the mirroring modifier. Increase the Merge distance on the Mirror modifier settings until they snap back together. I initially had mine at .001m, and had to increase it to .002m to get it to snap back together.

theres an addon called 3d print toolbox that analyzes the mesh just how you said 5:33

12:30 When you press the F, you should tell us what you've pressed although we can see what hotkey you used at the bottom of the screen.

me : accidentally creates an edge subsurf modifier: Imma end this man's career

Blender 2.9 - When doing the bevel, click on the display icon so that it is off under your Subdivision modifier to see the same basic cube mesh that Andrew has! Took me a minute!

10:25 If you raised your merge limit in the mirror modifier earlier and you cannot scale in the X axis, without it doing weird things, lower your merge limit again. It should be 0.001m.

At 7:50 if you're having issues bevelling because the triangle at the top isn't the same as his it's because you need to delete extra vertices. Press A to select all your vertices, then press F3, type Merge by, then click Merge by Distance (usually the top one) and it should remove all your extra vertices. Then try bevelling again and boom, it should work! :D EDIT: nvm you can also just press A (while selected on the cube) and just press M then > merge by distance lmao

When you rotate a object and want to move things in the local orientation, when you clic G, if you press the direction one time it moves in the world orientation, if you press two times (like G + Z + Z) it moves in the local orientation! You dont need to go up there and change the orientation.

Hello Blenderers! Just a reminder that you can always duplicate objects, put them in a separate archive, and hide them (before you apply modifiers or rotations) in case you need to change something later.

When you're using the second part of Ctrl-R, or GG, to slide edge loops, there's an E option to keep the loop parallel to one side or the other. F flips which side. Better than the default weighted average, for holding-edge loops. It's very useful, and often overlooked. You can cut in any old geometry with a knife, slide it, and wham! it's lined up.

Not just a chair , but the skills & insight to build anything I can imagine . Take your time Guru , the more you talk the more I learn ( wish I could say that for everybody )

I accidentally made a table

3:46 Andrew: Removed one because it was intentional Me: Removed 17, mistake xD

I've been on youtube watching tutorials every single day, since I'm really young and you're by far the best youtuber I've ever seen. Great content, great explanations and great personality! Keep going, you're truly inspiring

I'm gonna eat donut while sitting on that Half-chair.

Its so incredible to see that Ive been following this guy since ever, and now Im a tech artist.

12:46 to select the whole line of faces go in select face mode in the top left corner and hold Alt and click on a edge which connect two faces of the line loop of faces you want to check

I think you've done a FANTASTIC job with this series. Thank you!

Your skill in educating in Blender is unparalleled!

In case anyone is wondering why their origin(orange dot) is in the center and not at the bottom. Go to options on the top right of the viewfinder, check origin, move the origin with G, then uncheck origin and rotate the chair. (u dont have to do this but just feels right lol)

Loving this series! Although I’m reasonably experienced with the program, I just love watching you work and your personality. Thanks for the quality tutorials, especially for KZfaq.

Thanks for another series. I was kind of lost when doing the bevel at the curve. You often say things like "okay that's done lets do that thing now" but when you sometimes don't it blends together. A few seconds to gather thoughts and a clear signal that we're doing another place now would be great. It's amazing that you cover all the common errors even before I realize I messed up ;) Now I have top tier legs and square plane on top, I couldn't resist doing things ahead.

Excellent tutorial! Very practical with all those trick to fix the topology! Thanks a lot Andrew for making this series. Please share more of those tutorial. Thanks again!

I love your tutorials. You have a great style of teaching. Thank you!

7:43 For everyone who has the problem that the object becomes flat once you apply the scale, for me the fix was to delete the mirror modifier and readd it.

Love your tutorials and the way you explain. I don't even WORK in Blender, but I enjoy seeing you model. Well done sir! You make me want to learn Blender now!

I literally ran into every single problem that you talked about here (extra vertices, bad normals, a face where it didn't belong). great anticipatory skills! thanks for taking the time to talk about the roadblocks we might face!

19:40 Both when you're scaling the whole thing and when you want to move vertices along the local axis you can just press X twice in global mode and it will automagically go in to local mode :)

It's a total coincidence that I've told a friend of mine to model a chair for him to practice Blender. 3 days later, and you made a chair tutorial. Hahaa!

4 years later, I've created the same model through this tutorial in Blender 4.1 ^^ Before i started with this tutorial, i finished the Donut tutorial suceessfull. And it's very funny, that Andrew looks a few years younger in this video now xD Andrew, thank you very much for your tutorials. I learn much with your tutorials and it makes fun to learn Blender :)

Thank you! Your tutorials are awesome. Perfect amount of time and detail for a beginner.

Andrew: Showing two imaginal problems, being so sure I won't encounter any of them. Me: Encountering both of them

The scale changes if you scale the object in object mode which is correct. When you apply transform->Rotation you are saying to the object "This is now my 1:1 size of my object", so scale is now 1. If you go into edit mode and scale, you are not changing the scale of the object, you are just changing vertex positions by using scale. The same applies to position and rotation transforms.

Thank you so much for these serial of chair tutorials. Very informative and so well explaned. At 19:00 I suggest to use proportional editing with linear falloff and then grab and move the upper right vertices because the wood is thicker on is top.

Thanks for the tutorials Andrew! :) I've learnt much more about hard surface modeling with you than on a course. Now I'm not afraid of making mistakes cause I know that I can fix them.

Thanks man I totally learned blender from your doughnut and anvil tutorials and I am following this one too hope to see more

18:50 when i rotate the leg it does so about the geometrical center of it and not around it's botto part as in the video, how do i correct that?

Blender Guru, it is not about the result, but about the path, how to get there, which you've showed with your "charinstructionals", and they mirror your skills and very good personality, and have to say - thank you man. Especially that you've added negative modelling cases, which are of real value. You covered the uncovered :), and that's a bonus++.

Thank you for part 3. This is a great and fun tutorial. This will improve my modelling skills a lot.

the woodworking word you're looking for is "round over", IDK if that helps you but that is most likely a 1/4 " or 1/2" round over which means the radius that you're working with where the beveled part would be the removed wood material

the singular form of vertices is vertex :) good series though

I think it's great that the Blender Guru mentions some common issues that can happen while modelling and how to fix them. So far in the tutorial I've had a few moments where I was like wait a minute, why does it look weird? Even though we're following a tutorial carefully step by step, sometimes things just turn out different. Just be patient and try the tips the Guru mentions. If the mesh ends up weird and you can't Ctrl+Z back to safety, you can also manually add vertices until it looks right. If you select a single vertex and press E you get a connected vertex you can place somewhere you want. You can select four vertices and press F to make a face between them. At one point I noticed I had several extra vertices close to other ones but not close enough to remove by merging, so I had to manually move them close enough to the right ones that they merged.

Most youtube Blender people shpw of their blender skills. You show of your teaching skills. That's why YOU are the Guru.

Same tip as in the previous video: *If you are on Blender 2.83 or later* the shortcut to merge vertices changed from *Alt+M* to only *M*

Here's why "Dissolve Edges" didn't work in that case (4:25): You had an edge on top of a face (quad). If the edge actually divided the quad into two tris, you would have been able to dissolve it, since it would have been connected to two faces. But, it was just an edge connecting two vertices, so deleting it was the right move there.

Loving your tutorials Andrew. Been following along with a lot of your tutorials lately and the knowledge showed up when you were trying to scale the thickness of the leg before rotating it, all the while I was wondering why you didn't just rotate it, then change your transformation to local orientation and then scale the thickness? Looking forward to following along with the rest of the chair!!

I absolutely love this series, in fact i'm opening a business, selling furniture, very very very high quality, and i'm going to make these models a lot in future. thank you sir!

THANK YOUU I WAS WAITING FOR THIS

If your lil' orange dot is in the wrong place at 18:40 then here's a dirty fix: In edit mode, select the vertices you'd like to rotate from Shift+s and hit cursor to selected Tab to object mode Under the object toolbar, find Set origin Hit origin to 3d cursor You can now rotate from the exact spot of your choice. If you select multiple vertices, the 3d cursor will place itself wherever the center is between your selected points. This may be quite helpful to know for future projects of yours.

Your way of creating problems and then solving them is very helpful

It must be hard being funny, making the best quality tutorials for which you prepare long in advance. I am just so glad your tutorials exist man.... I've started with Blender with you 3 years ago. I have made money with it already. And I am still learning. Keep up! Your tutorials are high quality gold!!!

I'm here just to learn how to make a chair.... But first I need to finish the donut series. 🍩

6:23 when creating the bevel I got weird results, as if different edges were going in different directions. Face orientation looked fine. On a hunch I selected everything, alt + m and BOOM! 31 vertices deleted. I had 31 fucking overlapping vertices for absolutely no reason. It's an absolute mystery to me but now everything is ok

I just love how you just drop quick fix tips its so helpful

I absolutely love your tutorials man. Keep it up... Blender is THE thing keeping me sane during quarantine

Coming from years of SolidWorks/Inventor/Fusion, it is SO HARD to not have perfect dimensions and constraints while modeling like this!

Any tips for fixing the objects origin if we moved it? When you rotate at 18:45?

Thanks for the help with problem-solving, merging the vertices really helped!

Your tutorials have been helping me for 4 years mate. Fantastic work, your method of explaining things and how you make sure that it is delivered clearly for people to understand is flawless and extremely helpful. Thank you so much for your chanel and Poligon keep posting

18:53 Not thicker, but it should have a taper. thicker at the top, thinner at the bottom. You can use simple deform for that.

"This has to be hard, but also smooth." ancient wisdom right there

thanks for the bevel tip's explanation. i read about it some time ago but never could get the grasp of it. Dumb! all i had to to is realign the edge after. Love your videos! wish you the best

I am always soo busy in learning from these videos that I forget to like em every time I'am done. I am very thankful, without u I would have never started with blender.😊

12:45 when he alt+clicks to show the face loop, and it goes all the way down the leg of the chair, mine goes round, on the x axis, would that be a problem later on with texturing? or I shouldn't mind about it?

Oh no I've never been this early lemme think of a joke... My blender skills

Thanks a lot, with this series of tutorials I got the feeling of learning very valuable skills. You are awesome!!!

I'm here to learn so thanks for taking 40+ minutes on the base of the chair. A lot of good tips in this one.

Hi Andrew, the correct singular form for "Vertices" is "Vertex", not "Vertice" or "Verticee". Sorry :c

How do I fix incorrect normals when they only appear with the subdivision modifier?

I'm glad you created those problems! I had one face in the wrong direction and four duplicated vertices. I was able to fixed everything! Thanks!!!

Thanks Andrew. Really great quality and well delivered content.

6:20 bevel is a disaster. Even after merging any overlapping vertices. This tool is always a mess so I never use it. What's the trick?

Perks of being an American with bad sleep habits, you get to learn how to 3d model from an Australian when your brain won't let you sleep

Man...you make the learning sooooo FUN with your humor e coments, Thanks for that.

ur teaching style has changed a lot from donut in 2.8 fundamental to this chair. learnt many thing about more accuracy and perfection. Thank you

some how I have no idea how to view the object in that mode at 13:00 with all of the grided lines ? Edit: after two days I finally figured out that to see the subdivision faces as he does at this point you simply uncheck ''Optimal Display' below the subsurface modifier, hope this helps!

i will always look at this period of corona hysteria as the time i learnt something useful, that being how to make donuts and chairs in blender ;)

I always learn so much from these tutorials.

There is the 3D print plugin in blender (ships with it) that checks your mesh for nearly everything. overlapping faces and so one. You can also directly select that part of the mesh with the error.

18:45 when I rotate, the center of gravity is in the middle of the chair and not on z=0, how do I change that?

Nobody : Blenderguru : iT's tHE fiNAl cOunTDoWN

You just explained a problem I encountered when I was working on my own. I didn't know why that happened, but I found a looong workaround. Now I know I just flipped the face... Thank you!

Here in India, refreshed your channel page several times a day waiting for the next part of this series. This is some quality work and your channel name is really appropriate.

12:29 , I was going crazy (you missed to mention the last shortcut to "merge" the whole selection into one face). For those wondering, he pressed "F" , that made the trick.