# How do I bend shapes? **URL:** \ **Category:** Tips, Tutorials and Help\ **Created:** [February 11, 2024, 7:54pm UTC](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/t/how-do-i-bend-shapes/14289 "2024-02-11T19:54:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kaleb\_Cadle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a9a28c/32.png) [@Kaleb\_Cadle](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/u/Kaleb_Cadle)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2024, 7:54pm UTC](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/t/how-do-i-bend-shapes/14289/1 "2024-02-11T19:54:47Z")
I’m trying to figure out how I can bend objects, like bending a rectangle into an arch shape, or a sheet into a contoured wing shape, or make similar bends in other objects. Is there a good way to go about this? ---
**Author:** ![Holger\_Schoenischka](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forum.nomadsculpt.com/holger_schoenischka/32/3934_2.png) [@Holger\_Schoenischka](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/u/Holger_Schoenischka)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2024, 9:58pm UTC](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/t/how-do-i-bend-shapes/14289/2 "2024-02-11T21:58:26Z")
There is no right way to bend. Some things are simply done differently: you don’t take a rectangle and bend it into an arc, you create an arc with the torus or the tube, for example. And you don’t have to bend a sheet to get a wing, you use a tube profile instead. ---
**Author:** ![Kaleb\_Cadle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a9a28c/32.png) [@Kaleb\_Cadle](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/u/Kaleb_Cadle)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2024, 10:07pm UTC](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/t/how-do-i-bend-shapes/14289/3 "2024-02-11T22:07:05Z")
Thanks for the advice, I hadn’t thought about using a cylinder for that kind of thing. 👍🏻. Also, the torus is a perfect solution for a complex shape I was envisioning with an arch in two directions! Thank you for the advice, I really appreciate it! 👍🏻 ---
**Author:** ![Holger\_Schoenischka](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forum.nomadsculpt.com/holger_schoenischka/32/3934_2.png) [@Holger\_Schoenischka](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/u/Holger_Schoenischka)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2024, 10:14pm UTC](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/t/how-do-i-bend-shapes/14289/4 "2024-02-11T22:14:25Z")
You can change also the divisions, e.g. a torus with division 4 is a rectangle arc - it is also possible to set the angle. And yes, a cylinder + hole and a trim → is also a arc. And the tube works for everything… When I think about it, I have never needed a bend function. Bending would only be important for posing a figure, not for creating it. ---
**Author:** ![Kaleb\_Cadle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a9a28c/32.png) [@Kaleb\_Cadle](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/u/Kaleb_Cadle)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2024, 10:19pm UTC](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/t/how-do-i-bend-shapes/14289/5 "2024-02-11T22:19:43Z")
Thank you for the info, the division set to 4 trick sounds like it will be very useful! 👍🏻. I’m still a relative newbie to Nomad (only been using it for about a year), so I really appreciate the advice and tips! 👍🏻. I really love using Nomad, I tried doing a sculpt in Blender on my desktop recently, and the UI is not nearly as streamlined. It felt like I was fighting it to do basic things. Blender is useful for certain things, but Nomad is such a wonderful sculpting software, I’d say it’s better than Blender for sculpting and modeling, at least for me. 👍🏻 ---
**Author:** ![ViZeath](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forum.nomadsculpt.com/vizeath/32/19835_2.png) [@ViZeath](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/u/ViZeath)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2024, 12:07pm UTC](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/t/how-do-i-bend-shapes/14289/6 "2024-02-12T12:07:11Z")
I watched some of your bending tutorials, I guess you don’t use that method anymore? ---
**Author:** ![Holger\_Schoenischka](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forum.nomadsculpt.com/holger_schoenischka/32/3934_2.png) [@Holger\_Schoenischka](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/u/Holger_Schoenischka)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2024, 2:08pm UTC](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/t/how-do-i-bend-shapes/14289/7 "2024-02-12T14:08:44Z")
I know how to possibly bend something, but I haven’t used it for ages…I do everything so that I don’t have to bend anything. ---
**Author:** ![Kaleb\_Cadle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a9a28c/32.png) [@Kaleb\_Cadle](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/u/Kaleb_Cadle)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2024, 2:34pm UTC](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/t/how-do-i-bend-shapes/14289/8 "2024-02-12T14:34:53Z")
I guess I did just think of something I was wanting to bend that I don’t know if the cylinder solution would work for. What do you do with clothes? Like bending the tip of a collar? Or that kind of thing? So far I’ve been sculpting simple things, and have gotten a lot faster with those things, but I’d like to start sculpting some different characters for a project, and the clothes are one of the difficult parts for me to figure out. 👍🏻