Again thank you for this tutorial I have to say I did the same some time back by following a tutorial for Wings 3D and have to say the way you did it was 10 times faster and easier than the Wings version 

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Thank you, Lobo3433.  Yes, my friend David Brinnen made a Wings 3D tutorial of this object last year, as a 1 minute modeling exercise, using Wing's solid manifold modeling features.  David is also learning to model in Modo, where the same model took him almost 5 minutes to reproduce.  So the objective of creating this object in under 1 minute fascinated me, and with David's permission, I took on the challenge of developing a technique to reproduce it, in the same time or better, using 3dsmax.  Very quickly, I was able to come up with a simple exercise to achieve the shape in about 38 seconds, with only a few modifiers in 3dsmax.  I have that video up on my channel, with credits back to David's original Wings tutorial as well.  Being that there were a few steps in 3dsmax which couldn't be translated the same way in Blender, I decided to create this video, showing the alternative steps. Clearly, it's just as fast and easy in Blender. In the end, I think it's a testament to the powerful modeling tools in Blender, Wings, and 3dsmax, that a shape like this can be had in under 1 minute; considering even in Modo, it takes considerably more time.  However, I have shown David the 3dsmax video, and he indicated it may have provided him with some ideas to achieve a faster approach there. I may contact him again to see if he was able to figure out a new technique in Modo.

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