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Set pivot in T-Splines - Rhino Tutorial
From the course: Rhino: T-Splines
Set pivot in T-Splines
- Let's take a moment now and go over the Set Pivot command in T-Spline. It's this little icon over here right after the Scale. What it does is it lets you pick a specific location when you're rotating your model. So let me describe how that looks like. So when we select our model, and let's say we go to the Rotate. We can actually see that it's rotating directly from the center part of this model, which could be good. But what if we want to move or rotate or scale our model from a different location like this bottom part here where my mouse is. To do that, we can use the Set Pivot command. So the way that works is very simple. Just go to the icon. Left click. And now it's going to ask you in your command lines select a pivot point. You can just go to any point that you have on the mesh. Just make sure your snaps are on. So I'll click on this very bottom part here. And now you can see that the rotate function is now located at the base of you model. Just be very careful once you…
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Translate tool in T-Splines4m 5s
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Rotate tool in T-Splines2m 17s
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Scale tool in T-Splines2m 12s
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Set pivot in T-Splines2m 11s
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Selecting points (aka vertices) in T-Splines3m 25s
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Selecting edges in T-Splines3m 13s
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Selecting faces in T-Splines3m 13s
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Select objects in T-Splines1m 41s
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How to access the tools with hot keys2m 28s
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Retopo snap in T-Splines3m 9s
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Soft manipulation toggle in T-Splines4m 12s
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