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Modeling metal parts

Modeling metal parts - Rhino Tutorial

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Modeling metal parts

- [Instructor] So, we've spent some time planning for the dimensions and the material needs for the wooden parts of our musical instrument. Now we can take some time to focus on the metal parts. So I'm just continuing with the file that I made in the last video, the estimating-materials.3dm Rhino file. And we'll keep building this out adding the metal parts. Now, we don't need to be quite as careful in our planning for the metal pieces of our musical instrument, since what we'll have the fabricator do is essentially start with some metal rods and metal tape and just cut those down into predetermined lengths that we feed to them through the plans here. So, not quite as much customization, and it should be pretty easy to figure out exactly how much of those materials we need. So we can just go ahead and start modeling those right now. And we basically have two sets of metal parts that we're going to work with here. We have the tines, or the keys, so those are the parts of the instrument…

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