From the course: CATIA V5: Class A Surfacing

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Common tools

Common tools - CATIA Tutorial

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Common tools

- [Instructor] Now I want to talk about some common tools. These are tools that you're going to use in quite a bit of the functions within the freestyle workbench. These are located in the Tools dashboard, which I just pulled out. When I enter into one of the functions, I'm going to select this surface, and in this example, use control points. You'll notice that several of the tools on the Tools dashboard become active. These allow you to visualize, as you can see, the continuities. You can also turn on and off the orders as well, and control the attenuation, which is the amount of movement that happens as you move the mouse through space. So as you're going through and working within the context of freestyle, you need to make sure you may attention to this dashboard. As an example, right now my attenuation is set to high. If I grab this control point, and I move it, doesn't look like anything's going on. Now if I…

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