Integrated Circuits

[micheus]

In his thread Gandalf_Sr asked for a way to add the dimple to its integrated circuit (IC).

To better try to show that I ended up by building an IC and then decided to add it to this How To session.

So, here goes one of my approaches...


Three different approach to the body:

The first one is the same used in the video; The second after a cleanup and the third is a version for use with normalmap to build the dimple.
The use of hard edges in the second version was intended to equilibrate the weight of the mesh during the smooth operation. It made the smoothed object consistent with all corners with the same "curvature".

The wire, smooth preview and render (POV-Ray). The image was applied using the Snap Image tool.