Darkwing wrote:
How do you exactly get the regulars brushes on the patches?
Manually.
1) Make your blueprint using patches, notice this one has 4 sections:
2) Place a brush on the top of the first section and select the clipper tool (x on your keyboard):
3)Press 1 to lower the grid precision to 1 unit and draw the 1st cut using two points, you won't be able to place all the points exactly on the patch brush because patches probably won't be aligned with the grid. Ignore that and just get them as close as possible.
Press enter when done, if you cut the wrong side press ctrl+z to undo and ctrl+enter to switch the cutting side, you'll see a change in the 3d view. Then enter again to cut the proper side.
4) Proceed to do this for the 2nd edge, notice the blue preview surface on the side which is going to be cut.
5)and the third
6)Use these same steps for the next segment
7)Since this shape is symmetrical I just selected the first two segments, mirrored them along the x axis and rotated on the z by 270 degrees
Remove the patch brush, duplicate and rotate the brushwork further to get the needed shape
I wouldn't suggest using grid sizes smaller than 1.