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Editing solids: WireCut

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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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