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How to use the pipe tool in T-Splines

How to use the pipe tool in T-Splines - Rhino Tutorial

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How to use the pipe tool in T-Splines

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- [Voiceover] Let's check out the Piping tool in T-Spline. It's this icon right here. And it's a pretty neat little tool. It takes any NURB curve and convert it into a T-Spline mesh. So I'm gonna start by going to the Curve tools here, and select the second one over. Draw a simple NURB curve like this. Or a straight one. Could take both, and left-click on the T-Spline Pipe tool. You start by getting this feedback. It's basically a preview of what your shape will look like. You have a bunch of options here in your menu. You can change the number of segments, you could Add Handle, Remove, Set Mutiple, Clear the Multiple, could change the Radius, your Aspect. The Preview box output, Joints, your Joints Set, which is square, and Deformable Joints, yes or no. So the only thing we need to be worried about at this present moment is the Radius and the Output. Whether you want it Box mode or Smooth. OK, but for the purpose of this course, you always want to keep it at Box mode for now. And the…

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