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Mono-rail sweep surfaces

Mono-rail sweep surfaces - Alias Tutorial

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Mono-rail sweep surfaces

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- We're gonna move on to a very important Surface creation command in Alias, and that's the Rail Surface. So, under Surface creation, you're gonna go to Sweep Surfaces, Rail Surface. So let's do a reset first. And these are the default settings for the Rail Surface. And we're gonna start off with a very simple scenario, which is the monorail. So, in this case, we're gonna change the Rail Curves to 1, and we're gonna have a single Generation Curve. So, essentially what we're going to be doing is taking one profile and sweeping it down one Rail. Alias will help us through this command, so let's just keep an eye on the prompt box at the top. So it's asking us now to select a Generation Curve. That's this Curve, here. Now, it's asking us to select a primary Rail Curve, and that's this Curve, here. So let's go into the Top View, and I'm gonna go into Edit, Patch Precision, and I'm just gonna add some isoparms by moving left and right. So let's go back into Query Edit, and let's re-open…

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