Ships Wheel

As part of practice into using 3ds max for the first time, i created the practice pieces given to us. This is the ships wheel. It is made entirely out of primitive shapes, mostly cylinders and tubes. In order to create all the spokes and handles for the wheel i first created a single one and then changed the rotation point for them to the centre of the wheel. This meant that i could Shift Drag and rotate original and create instances of it around the wheel saving a lot of time making new, identical ones. All i had to do afterwards was slightly tweak their positions to make sure they were all evenly spaced out.