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Dave's favorite curve tips

Dave's favorite curve tips - Rhino Tutorial

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Dave's favorite curve tips

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- [Instructor] Once we've mastered the basics of drawing curves, we should always try to leverage our work. Leveraging is defined, at least by me, as getting results by using stuff you already created. Now, the best example of this strategy is my favorite, the offset command. It will work with a variety of curves, whether they're open curves or closed. Let's start off with this basic circle, here. We're gonna access the command with the curve tools toolbar, and the offset command is right here. So, we'll pick the curve, then we can either go inside or out. Let's make sure that our distance is enough so we can see this effect. A lot of times, it will default to one, I've got mine cranked up to 10, and there we go, we can go outside or inside equally accurately. Let's try two sides now with this little wiggly curve. I'm gonna select it, and just another way to pick is right click and repeat the last command we've done, and there's the one side offset, we can now access the command line…

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