From the course: Alias Essential Training
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3D placement
- Let's take a look at how we can place 3D entities in model space. So let's shade this up and you can see it's a very simple scenario. We have a cylinder, we have a cone, and we have a button. We're gonna place these all on to the cylinder, and I wanna show you some techniques for doing this. Ok, let's go back to wire frame and the function we're gonna use is the place function and let's open up the options for that. So there's a whole bunch of data on the top here that's all zeroed out, and then we have the option to delete points when finished and set local access from geometry. So let's leave exactly everything as it is and I'm gonna go ahead and select this cone. This cone is gonna be placed right at the top here. So let's look at the prompts from Alias. So Alias is telling us to use the mouse button to pick up to three points that define the from location, so up to three points. So I wanna use my control and alt, snap to this isoparm right to the center. Now I can say accept…
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