From the course: Surfacing an F1 Wheel In Alias

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Adding an overcrown to the sidewalls

Adding an overcrown to the sidewalls - Alias Tutorial

From the course: Surfacing an F1 Wheel In Alias

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Adding an overcrown to the sidewalls

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- Ok, so at this stage now, we are ready to essentially finish off this body. So we've created a quarter of the body, and now it's a case of reflecting this over in the X direction. And remember the red vector here indicates X. And then we're going to reflect in the Z direction to create the bottom portion. But before I do that, I'm going to show you a little bit of a sanity check that I go through when I'm doing my surfacing. So I'm just going to hide those templated pieces of geometry. Now at this point here, I'm going to run a quick check by simply selecting all that data, and then I'm going to go to Surface Edit, Stitch, Shell Stitch. Space bar to accept. Now what I'm looking for here, if I move this stitch surface up, is I'm looking for areas where we've got gaps or slight slivers of surfaces that don't quite match. And that's a good sanity check. If it passes this check here, you're in pretty good shape to move onto the next stage. If you do see any errors at this stage, it's a…

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