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Rebuilding curves

Rebuilding curves - Alias Tutorial

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Rebuilding curves

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- Let's take a look at how we can rebuild data. Now, during the concept phase of modeling, we are creating very fast, very quick entities just to get our ideas down in 3D space. There comes a time when we have to smooth this data out or simplify it to create better quality services. And if we take an example here like this curve here, now this could be imported from another CAD system, it could be imported, and during the translation period of the import, it can produce some errors. So in this case here, we're going to use this as an example to try to smooth this out and get a better result. So the command we're going to use is Rebuild Curve. And if we go to Reset, we're going to use the very first option which is Reduce spans. So let's go ahead and let's select this curve. And I want to press the spacebar to say go, but before I do that, let's click on these options here, spacebar to say go. So what we're doing here is, with Reduce spans, we're asking Alias to try smooth another…

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