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Multi-Surface Draft

Multi-Surface Draft - Alias Tutorial

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Multi-Surface Draft

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- Let's move on to another very useful function under Surface Create. Right-click under Surface, and we're going to move on to Multi-Surface Draft. At the very top, we have two options for Multi-Surface Draft, or MSD. We have a Normal, or we have Draft. Let's stick with Draft for now. The only other option I'm going to switch on is Auto Update and Chain Select. Let's put on Surface Continuity, as well. Let's zoom into this green profile here. This is just a curve data. I'm going to switch off the grids for clarity's sake. Let's just go ahead, select this edge, and we'll change the length to 50 millimeters. We are now creating a draft in the Z direction, or the Z vector, length of 50, and it has zero draft on there. You'll notice that, when I selected one edge, it picked everything in one go. That's because I have Chain Select on. If I Undo All, deselect Chain Select, I would have to go in and individually pick each one of these entities, like that. This is purely preference. I'm going…

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