Quick recipe for a customized pumpkin

Pumpkin

Pumpkin

Here are the tools I used in 123D Design to make this customized pumpkin. I made it for my daughter’s Halloween party at school this Friday:To makePumpkin:

  • Sphere. For obvious reasons!

  • Draw rectangle. You need this to split the top and bottom of the pumpkin.

  • Extrude, merge. This makes your rectangle 3D.

  • Split solid. This does the splitting.

  • Shell. To hollow out the pumpkin.

Face:

  • Polygon. To draw one eye, nose and mouth.

  • Polyline. To assist the Mirror tool below.

  • Extrude, merge. To make the eye 3D.

  • Mirror. This creates a second eye.

  • Group. To link the eyes, nose and mouth together.

  • Move, rotate. To position the face on the pumpkin.

  • Extrude, subtract. To carve out the face on the pumpkin.

Name on back of pumpkin:

  • Text. To create my daughter’s name in the model.

  • Move, rotate. To position the name on the pumpkin.

  • Extrude, subtract. To carve out the name on the pumpkin.

Holes for handles:

  • Circle.

  • Move, rotate. To line up the hole position.

  • Extrude, subtract. To carve out the hole on the pumpkin.

Pumpkin 2

Pumpkin 2

 Give it a try!Don’t worry if you get stuck. We’re here to help!david.seto@3droundhouse.com 

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