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Solids basics

Solids basics - Rhino for Mac Tutorial

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Solids basics

- Some surfaces in Rhino 5 for Mac fall into a special group called Solid Objects. Here, we have some solid and some non-solid surfaces to work with. So, I've got these grouped into layers, and for now I'm going to hide the non-solids layer, and we'll talk just about the solids. So, even the name solid itself can be a little bit confusing. Unlike in real life, solid objects in Rhino don't actually have anything filling the interior. They're still made of the same infinitely thin mathematical surfaces as the non-solid objects. In Rhino, a solid is made any time a surface or polysurface is completely closed, so that is when all of its edges meet up exactly with other surface edges with no gaps in between. And there are three types of surfaces that can make a solid object in Rhino. First, we have single surface solids like these, and those are made when one NURB surface is wrapped onto itself. So, we have the sphere and the torus, and these are both examples of single surface solids…

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