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Forming the engine propeller

Forming the engine propeller - Rhino Tutorial

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Forming the engine propeller

- [Voiceover] Let's take a look now at building the propellers for the body in T-Spline. I'm gonna go now to the front view. This body is in the way, so I'm gonna go ahead to the Layers tab and just turn off the lightbulb, so it's hidden for a minute. Then I wanna look now at the center section of our front view. I'm gonna pull in a sphere from the primitives. Just start from zero. And you could just build it out, you don't have to worry about the size of the shape yet. Then when you left click, let's look at our options here. We need to have vertical faces, four is fine. Make sure symmetry is set to yes. You wanna have a radial symmetry of yes. Then segments, we'll keep it at three because if you look at your propeller, you have one, two, and three fins coming out, and if you look at your faces per segment, you can keep it at two. Then when you're ready, hit Enter. There we go, we have a nice ball with three symmetrical green lines, and now we can get started. I wanna select this…

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