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Aligning surfaces

Aligning surfaces - Alias Tutorial

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Aligning surfaces

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- So now let's take a look at aligning surfaces. So this is going to add some level of complexity now because we have an entity that has a U and V direction and it can be quite a complex align in some cases. So let's take a look at these two pieces of data here and I've switched my grids off for clarity because we're using some patch precision lines on these surfaces. Let's open up Align, and we're going to click Reset and we're going to use Edge first so let's pick the edge of this surface I'm going to pick the edge of this one here. Now you'll notice by default Alias will snap to the extremes of those edges as you can see like this. Now we do have a marker here that allows me to drag these edges in so I can do what we call a partial match or a partial align. As soon as I do that you'll note that under Partial the check box appears. So if I uncheck this you'll notice it snaps out to the ends. If I click on Partial, it will snap back to a partial align. So let's do a Reset on this. If…

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