At 8:24, For Blender 4.1 users this function is being changed to a modifier. In Modifiers Tab > Normals > shade smooth by angle You will still have to right click the object and shade smooth

If you're stuck on the auto smooth part, the option for "Smooth by Angle" is no longer under the Data tab. Its now its own modifier. So go to the modifier tab for your seat, and add a new modifier. Its called "Smooth by Angle". Hope this helps someone.

3:39 For those of you who can't see the mesh of the "transformed plane", go to the Subdivision Surface Modifier and uncheck the box named "Optimal Display" (it seems to be a default setting).

What I have learned = Loop cuts can make miracles.

Andrew: "Let's increase number of segments in bevel modifier" Me: "Ok, nice idea", increasing segments up to 10 My PC: Ight, imma head out

Me modeling a dagger: "Yes this chair tutorial should help with my dagger"

Blender guru : Homework Me : duplicates the seat

7:28 Andrew: Then you do a shade smoth Me: Yeah of course Andrew: Oh no Me: Oh no

I have been watching your tutorials "The Donat" I'm in the last chapter, you are cool and funny teacher and I liked you, thank you very much. #SendingLoveToYouFromAfrica.

If your BEVEL is not changing size, then uncheck "Claim Overlap" from within the "Geometry" section within the Modifier properties. Thanks to @Danilo Palma for saying that deep down in the comments :)

I've been using blender for years and still you're showing me the solutions to problems that ALWAYS plague my work in a tutorial for beginners

I wonder how many people learned blender because of your tutorials. Congratulations!! Including myself, started my own channel with your tutorials!

your daughter crying at the end was so well-timed lol.

My day starts with coffee☕ and a Andrew Guru chair. 🖥🖱

9:42 if the smooth comes back after adding the bevel, maybe instead you can try to check Harden Normals in the bevel modifier. Also for the next tip with Harden Edges that is applied to the mesh, there is also a checkbox for that in the bevel modifier 😉

After this tutorial series I might as well apply to a 3D game design studio.

11:10 In blender 2.91.2, looks like Mark sharp is now in Shading > Mark > Sharp but it didn't work for me so I used Shading > Harden Normals

"Anyway, I'm waffling" I have never heard that phrase before but I love it already.

This tutorial series is so perfect for optimizing my modeling technique from my level of Blender experience.

You are an awesome teacher of Blender. You have the perfect pace and balance between technical and humor to get viewers to stay tuned and learn. Thanks for your hard work, it is very appreciated as I turn to 3D modeling as my goto hobby.

Completed first 3 parts on the same day they were posted. Closely following this series.

Just wanted to take a second and thank you for all the hard work you've put into these tutorials to help out new 3D artists, I cant even imagine how many careers you've helped start, I'm learning to hopefully add 3D elements and environments to the music videos I direct and as far as modeling goes you have helped me soooo much, I appreciate you!

Homework: 1. Select the seat 2. Press Shift + D to duplicate 3. Press G + Y to move on Y axis 4. Press R + X to rotate on X axis You are done! Congratulations

For anyone else who was wondering why his rectangle turned into an oval and not a circle like your own, it was because the way he smashed his plane after applying the mirror modifier is very important. Hope that helps someone find the problem. 1:12 ish if you wanted a time

Zero to hero in 60 minutes! Thank you! Great lessons.

When enable Auto Smooth in the Normals section of your Object Data for an Object, you have to enable "Shade Smooth" on that Object to see any change take place. I sat there for a while thinking - "Why does mine still look exactly the same?" and this is why. Auto Smooth will correct the smoothing when the object is shaded to be smooth and not flat.

I've learned SO much in these chair building segments. Thanks a million!

Followed your doughnut tutorial a long time ago to get me started, learned blender very well, dropped blender for a while, decided to start again and I've had forgot so much. Then I relearned some basics and found this tutorial and it's perfect!

8:43: actually the edge split modifier rips the edges based of their angle and you can see that if you add subdiv after the edge split

I would personally use Lattice for the bending to be more non-destructive

this is very instructive, after completing part 4 I felt confident enough to attempt part 5 on my own without watching the tutorial, there was more fine tuning due to the angle but I managed to achieve the desired result, and now I'm pretty happy with my Chair, I feel like I learn more with this one than with the Donut one, or at least I am starting to remember stuff and hotkeys

I finished the model... looks really cool... another great series from the Blender Guru! thanks mate, it's helping me very much! I can't wait for the texturing episodes!

Let me tell you, getting to the beginning of this part in the tutorial (Part 4) and having a clean, good-looking mesh has been quite the challenge - and it feels great!

Very good idea to leave one part as homework!

This tutorial series came just at the right time. After finishing the Donut, I've been experimenting with Blender but some things I try just don't quite come out right. This tutorial, however, is helping with that. I'm currently just watching them rather than following them but the tips I'm picking up on mirroring, edge flow, bevels, etc. are really helping me refine my current project (Auto-smooth is an absolute Godsend!) and making things look closer to how I want and (slightly) less amateur. :-)

Andrew, what you say in the +/-14 min is very true. I do oil painting and drawing as well. And the one thing I was taught is always to step back to get the full picture. What looks great close up does not always look great when you take a few steps back. And Art is viewed from a distance. If you look at oil painters, they always every now and again take a few steps back. I hope I make sense.

the line on the cad drawing that you think is a bevel is actually the beginning and the end of a radius when we export a 3d model from a cad software like solidworks or solidedge

The bevels causes the auto-smooth to break because it breaks a hard 90 degree angle into smaller increments. If you keep bumping up the number of segments on the modifier, the increment will eventually be below the threshold angle (30 degrees in your case) and everything will be smoothed out again.

Andrew, Thanks for the interesting clear tutorials. Would never have learnt this much this fast without your tips. Proud to have found a tip for the master this time: To solve the sharpness of the seat bevel (11:10/16:24); In the bevel settings, you choose the 'Limit Method' to be 'Angle'. Makes more sense than to change 'Object Data Properties'.

Thank you for a splendid tutorial. I'm converting from C4D to B3D so this was very helpful. Using the center of another object as origin when mirroring completely blew my mind btw.

Hi Andrew I love your videos, I learned blender thanks to you Quick tip for you and everyone who might find this useful : You can grab, scale and rotate objects on one local axis by pressing the key to the axis twice FE: If you press S + Z you will scale an object along the global axis which is also local axis if the object has 0 rotation, but if your object it's rotated and you press S + Z + Z you will scale an object along his local Z axis not the global Z axis

Don't forget to make muscle simulation tutorial blender guru.

I tried the Simple Deform modifier to add the curve to the seat and it worked pretty well.

I learned that it is necessary to have an order when modeling the object. Thank you!

You're a great teacher, as you essentially "force" the one who's learning to work for themselves, a skill I believe is crucial for 3D modelling, not letting them follow everything step by step. I mean the back rest part of the chair, if it isnt clear.

If you haven’t already, you should probably explore the “Harden Normals” feature of the Bevel Modifier . . . I’ve used it for several furniture models now and found it extremely effective.

The best part about this tutorial series is that it has all the frustration of trying to do seemingly simple things. I feel like a lot beginner tutorial avoid things that might be frustrating.

"When you go model something yourself you not gonna have me there telling what to do", I almost started crying literally lol, I imagined my entire future blender career, modeling things by myself, and thinking if you'd be pride of me damn

If anyone is having trouble with the auto smooth option doing nothing, after I checked the box I used shade smooth in the object mode and it worked, with the bevel modifier too btw (also i did the ctrl e and right click mark sharp, while selecting the outline vertices)

Nice tutorial series again I loved your donut series

It’s so easy to follow your tutorials. Thank you so much 😊

About the auto-smooth kicking in when you increase the bevel segments: I actually had to mark the edges sharp AND check "Mark sharp" in the bevel modifier options. I think it's worth mentioning because 2 segments looked way better than one, in my case.

Another awesome tutorial!

your tutorials are just amazing, thank you for helping student like us 🙂

YOU ARE AWESOME. You have really helped me over the past few years. We need an awards (Oscar Like) category for you Andrew and others like you. Category would be..."Expanding Digital Arts by Education"

Just finished following this one, thanks again for making these tutorials

I give you a Big THANKS for making this tutorial 🖐

WAIT! What do you mean by "When you go model something yourself, you are not going to have me there telling you what to do"?

Solid video series mate. Watching each day for the next part ❤

Nice and pertinent tutorial, i love your tenchnical approach to teach people .

"Well then I guess this'll have to be a bench." - Me, at the end of this video.

I jumped the gun after part 1and did the whole chair, to see if i'm actually learning or just following tutorials parrot fashion. So far I've done exactly as the tutorials are showing, so I guess I am learning.

Thank you. I appreciate your time and effort. You have great presentation style.

@Andrew @Blender Guru 5:25 The second Line inside is the Iso curve which describes exactly where the radius starts. Usually it is easier if the Iso curve is shown bit thinner than the outline. Also when you modelled the side part you could have used the inner iso curves to hit exactly the right radius of the chair.

Great series. Unfortunately I've been having problems with all the steps so far. Everything functions diferently from yours D:

Andrew: "You have homework to do! Just as you did here, do this other part! Me: *shift + D intensifies*

TE AMO! You are awesome dude your tutorials are the ebst and you are so charismatic I hope your life if full of blessings and other Gurus that help you in your journey! Thank you man!

If someone on Blender 4.1 is watching this, at 8:30, Auto Smooth was turned into a modifier. Go to Add Modifier, Normals and then Smooth by Angle.

I think your smoothing problem is because Auto-Smooth is set to 30° and with more bevel segments you are coming under that 30 degrees :)

Shift+D for the seat, grab rotate scale. adjust the back, homework finished :P

Nice to see what i did wrong by trying by myself. I started out with a cube, loop cutted along y axys, modelet into the shape, inlayed the top and the bottom faces to get a top part bevel line, added two loopcuts along the edge and setted a subsurf to smooth the edges, but i encountered some issues with the clipping of the mirror and resolved with some fiddling around the merging and x axis alignment to eliminate some of the artifacts. But it does some strange curves in the side part that i could not fix. Starting from a plane seems a much better, neater solution!

I would say I know most of the things explained in this part but I ended up watching the whole video, what a beast of a teacher

1:58 subtitles : heing, euh hmm, as we're... 😂👌

9:48 if that happens to you, try to go to auto smooth and reduce the angel.

9:00 has me laughing, doing one thing to fix something, creating a new problem, and then doing another thing to undo part of the "problem" that we had before. Thanks BG for your videos and delivery style, always keeping it entertaining.

Mirroring the second leg off the plane was so cool!

i'm literally checking your channel every hour now to see the next episodes ^_^

You look so done on the thumbnail showing us how to do a damn chair :D

I feel like you are my best friend for ages Andrew. Thanks for sharing this, I'm enjoying (and following a lot). My daughter is 4yrs old and sometimes she enters the room where I record the videos for my channel rsrssr... some bloopers after all.

Thanks for all the details. Really enjoy it.

The baby's reaction is the same reaction I have when I hear homework

13:34 how do you actually know which order the modifiers need to be in, it doesnt make sense to me that having these in a different order will mess with the result - how do you understand this? Many thanks!

12:10... Now that is a new cool trick for solving artifacts I learned today. These annoying edges with bevel modifier always been a problem.

This is an amazing intermediate tutorial. I learned so much from this series. Thanks a lot.

I've got a question: something is wrong with my bevel - most of the time I can't change the size of it so as I move the slider nothing is happening. Only when it's zero the bevel just disappears. :c And thank you so much for your amazing tutorials! You're the best. :з

"Layers of plywood on top of each other" That is what plywood means, "ply + wood" means layers of wood.

You are great! your video is fun to follow and useful for my training! Thanks a hundred times.

I'm creating a different chair and I gotta say, changing the order of the modifiers made it better! I learned: Be not afraid to play around and try out

"Have you ever modeled something..." That's... why I'm here.

I'M Jst Waiting for It LV UR WRK BRO ANY COMMENT FOR INDIA ♥️♥️♥️♥️🙏🏻🙏🏻

beautiful series. thanks.

thanks this is great, I've been waiting for your tutorials. They are the best!

8:05 How to control smooth-shading command 9:37 Bevel modifier 11:45 How to fix beveling effect to an edges that you don't want to modify. 12:48 Why the order of modifier is important, and how difference makes changes. 14:43 Mirroring object based on another object.

Hi guys, I jumped into a problem that I had been trying to solve: problem is that my bevel tool just does not work, not not at all, it does one small cut, so it bevels, but I can't increase that, help needed.

I learn more from your videos than I do at university tutorials lol. you're the best teacher I've ever had. Thank you :)))

This is getting an excellent tutorial series. It is not a monkey-see-monkey-do tutorial. Because of this video series, I grasped the idea of how the subdivision surface works and the importance of a good topology.

Me an intelectual: Using bevel to give curve to the edge. Subsurface Modifier: So you have chosen........ death.

10:35 The Bevel Offset is not working for me, even if I change it to .01 it remains thick, anyone know why?

the two thick lines on the chair seat in front view are the upper and lower edge of the peace of wood, the line line further down is the curvature the seat takes

Fillet or filleted edge is the word your looking for to describe rounded edges. The two lines in the AutoCAD file are representative of that. Hope that helps you out in the future, great tutorial :)