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Creating solid objects

Creating solid objects - Rhino Tutorial

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Creating solid objects

- [Instructor] Let's take a look at creating some of our own solid objects from scratch in Rhino for Mac. I got the exercise file solids-creating.33m open. Let's take a look under the Solid menu, and you can see here, we've got commands for many different types of solid objects, and this top half of the menu are what are called solid primitives, so these are basic shapes, things like a cone, a cylinder, a sphere, or a box that are sort of predefined. So we could click some of these, maybe we want to make a cylinder and I'll just click in the viewport, we'll set the base and the height, and there we've got a solid cylinder. Maybe let's try a torus. So I'll set the center, the radius, and then the second radius, and that gives us this sort of donut shape. And then maybe a box, and you can see, we have several different ways to define a box. So two corners and a height, and there we go. So with just a few clicks, we…

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