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Keypoint curves

Keypoint curves - Alias Tutorial

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Keypoint curves

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- I want to show you another very powerful curve creation command and that's called the Keypoint Curve. So let's open up Keypoint Curve Toolbox and we're going to start off with the very first one which is circle. So let's switch to a true top view and with circle selected, let's double click that. You can see they're very simple options and we're going to go with the default settings, say Go, and the first point is going to specify the center of this circle. So I can hold my alt down and we can snap right to the center of the grid like so. Second point allows me now to specify an exact radius so the value changes as I move my cursor. I can also open up my Information Window which is Ctrl+5, and if I look at the Information Window, under Attributes I can also specify an exact radius like this. So this is a very powerful command and it allows me to have full control over this particular entity. I can also pick the entity and scale it, like so. I can also pick one of those keypoints and…

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