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Creating primitives interactively with the mouse

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Creating primitives interactively with the mouse

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- [Instructor] Primitives can also be created interactively using the mouse. The method for interactive creation is slightly different for each primitive type. You'll need to click and drag the mouse cursor in a specific pattern. A sphere is the simplest because it only has a position and a radius. Go to the create panel, and click the button labeled sphere. And in the perspective view, click and hold the mouse button down. When you click, you're determining the position for a new sphere, and when you drag out holding the mouse button down, you're setting the radius for that sphere. Release the mouse button to complete that sphere, and since the tool is still active, we can continue to make spheres. Click and drag to set the position and the radius. To finish creating spheres, we can right click in the viewport to exit that tool. For some types of primitives, we'll need to click and drag more than once to set its…

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