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Building the screwdriver's main shapes

Building the screwdriver's main shapes

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Building the screwdriver's main shapes

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- [Instructor] In this chapter, we are now ready to begin building the surfaces for the handle and the tip. We will use Rhino's tools to build the separate parts of the screwdriver. We'll also prep the model for rendering in KeyShot. And now let's get started building the shape of the handle. As you could see here in our screen, if we maximize the Perspective menu again, we can see that the handle is still locked. So, let's go ahead and unlock it. You can also type it in. Now, what I want to do is take that curve that I created earlier in the beginning and we what we want to do is rotate it around and create the actual shape of the handle. So, to do that, we could use a number of tools, but the tool I want to use today is the Revolve function. So, let's go ahead and go to Surface, go down to Revolve, and it's going to ask you for the axis. Just think of it like a revolving door. This is the bottom and that's the top. Then when you pull out, you'll see the sweeping function, it's a…

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