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Shelling your model manually

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Shelling your model manually

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In this video, we continue working on manual techniques for shelling your model. If you watched the prior movie, you know that Rhino has a new command called Shell Closed Poly-Surface and you also saw that it doesn't always work. So let's continue and check out some searches I use that by the way will work. Zoom in to this engine here at the top. I'm going to highlight this curve just to make sure you can see it. So the technique used here is just using curved offsets to create the wall thickness as your designing. So this technique works pretty well for something like a revolve, also extrusions, lofts. With pretty much any command, you can offset the curves that generated at either the inside or out, and just make a separate surface to generate this wall thicknesses. So one good thing about this technique is, you don't have to plan ahead very much at all. The key though is, keep all your curves. Alright, let's take a look at another technique. It's going to be a little bit more…

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