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Building a 2D gear

Building a 2D gear - Rhino Tutorial

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Building a 2D gear

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- [Instructor] In this video, we not only build a cool gear, but we also learn some very important lessons on strategy. Let's recap some of the points I've mentioned earlier. We're always going to build with curves first, then generate surfaces. So building with curves gives us the ability to change the design much easier at any time. We're also going to try to avoid building stuff all at once which means we just break it into simpler parts which you're going to see right here. And the final tip I like to mention is I build things bigger and then trim them back if it's easier. You'll see what I mean here. In just a minute we're going to start building this from several components and get the gear on the right. Let's zoom out and go down to the construction plane here. We're looking for a command called star, it's a polygon. So we can find that over here on the main toolbar. If you click and hold here are some of the other…

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