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Editing solids: WireCut - Rhino Tutorial
From the course: Learning Rhino 6 for Mac
Editing solids: WireCut
- [Narrator] I'd like to do a little more work here, on a freeform solid, that we worked on in a different video. I've got the exercise file, solids-wirecut.3dm open. I've gone ahead and done some additional work to clean up this form. A little bit of rebuilding, a little bit of cleanup from the surface offset that we did to flush out the interior. So I'm imagining this is maybe like a tea kettle or a pitcher, and with that in mind, I'd like to add an additional opening to the top of the form here. And of course there's many different ways we could do that, we could trim it, we could split it, we could delete it, we could rebuild it ourselves, but I'm going to look at a command called WireCut. So, WireCut uses a curve object, to basically cut into a solid object, leaving a hole, but keeping the surface solid. So it's a little bit like trim, but specifically for solids. And it actually reminds me a lot of literally…
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Solids basics5m 2s
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Creating solid objects6m 20s
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Freeform solids creation10m 21s
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Analyzing solids: Edge analysis6m 36s
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Editing solids: Boolean difference2m 5s
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Editing solids: Boolean union2m 35s
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Editing solids: Boolean intersection2m 30s
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Editing solids: Boolean two shapes3m 22s
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Editing solids: WireCut5m 24s
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Editing solids: Chamfer4m 16s
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