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Analyzing curve radius

Analyzing curve radius - Rhino Tutorial

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Analyzing curve radius

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- [Instructor] In this video, we'll take a look at analyzing the radius of a curve. Now, this is a really fundamental technique in Rhino. And you're going to find it in just about any work flow, so it's a really nice thing to have in your toolbox. And to help us out here, I've got the exercise file, landscape-design.3dm open. And I'm interested here in this cyan border and this represents some edging that we're going to be placing around some raised beds in this landscape design. Now, the material that I've specked for the edging can only bend to a certain extent so I need to check some of these curves to make sure that their radiuses aren't too tight for the material to actually accommodate. So, let's go in the Menu bar under the Analyze menu and click to activate the radius command. So we're being prompted to select a point on a curve for radius measurement and you can see as I hover over any of these curves, I'll get a…

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