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Match surface in T-Splines

Match surface in T-Splines - Rhino Tutorial

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Match surface in T-Splines

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- [Voiceover] OK now let's take a look at the Match Surface command in T-Splines. This is the icon right here next to the bridge. It's a very common tool that is very necessary in Rhino. For example, if you have a T-Spline mesh that has already a cavity, and you want it to match to a very precise NURB curve, it's not as easy when you convert it into a SubD shape, and you can see that the curvature does not match the precise curvature of a NURB curve. So the technique to matching it is quite simple. The first thing you want to do is click on the Match Surface icon. Then it's gonna ask you Select a T-Spline border loop to change. So, even if it's an open T-Spline surface, it will still work. So you select one edge. And you can continue to hold the Shift key and click all of them. Or an easy way to do it is you select one edge first. Then you hit the L key, so you can automatically loop around to the other end here. Well, it looks like I already selected the command, so if I backtrack…

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