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Applying a thickness to a SubD surface

Applying a thickness to a SubD surface - Alias Tutorial

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Applying a thickness to a SubD surface

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- [Instructor] Once you've created your subdivision model, you may want to add some thickness to it. I want to show you how to do that using the thickness command. So let's open up the command thicken, subdiv thicken. It's a very simple dialogue box. Here we have the value of distance, and we can increase or uncrease those edges. So very simple command. And let's just take a look at the very first one here. So I want to click, this sub divinity, and we have a arrow that appears we can increase the distance by just dragging on this arrow. And if we go right to that center where the dot is and I just click that we can change the direction, so direction and distance. Now, if we switch off crease edges we get more of an organic shape. So crease edges just applies a crease to the inside edges. As you can see here. Let's take this sphere, actually it's a box. It appears as a sphere, but if I go to box mode you can see actually…

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