Quick Rectangular Grille Tutorial (3ds max)

There are lots of technique to build an air intake grille for a car. I'll show you one of those techniques which I usually use.

I won't explain the basic rules for interface of 3ds max here. So  you need to be familiar with 3ds max interface.

Let's start creating a plane.

1. "Ctrl+ Right click" at the front viewport, then select "Plane" from the quad menu (This shortcut is the one I mostly use)

2.Click and drag on the viewport and create a plane. (The proportions are not important but for the tutorial, I created 180 mm. high and 320 mm. wide plane)

3. On the modify panel adjust length segs to 30 and Width Segs ot 40 as seen in the illustration below.

4.Right click on the plane and from the quad menu: Select Convert to>Editable Poly

5.Go to modify panel and select Face sub-object mode. (Or simply hit number "4")

6. Press Ctrl+A and select all faces on our plane.

7. Return to modify panel and find the Edit Polygons rollout, hit Inset dialog button (which is the small tiny button at the right hand of Inset button) (Click on the pic for bigger version)

8. Click OK and then simply hit DELETE on the keyboard.

9. We're about to finish modeling... Go to modify panel and Go to BORDER subobject level.

10. Again Ctrl+A to select all the borders on the model.

11. Then go to modify panel and in the Edit Borders rollout, Hit the Extrude button and extrude the selected borders just once.

Yeah... we have finished the basic shape. Below picture is the result of our grille.

Have a nice day.