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Some of Dave's killer tips for editing

Some of Dave's killer tips for editing - Rhino Tutorial

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Some of Dave's killer tips for editing

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- We're going to wrap up this course by looking at some of my favorite editing and workflow tips. For lack of a better name, I'm going to call them Killer Dave Tips. The first one I'd like to introduce to you is called Solid Control Points. It's like control points that you're familiar with on curves, but it's on solid objects that it could even be very complicated and joined with many, many parts. Let's give an example here where I'd like to move my vents around on the case but not have to rebuild everything. Let's select this entire case right here. I'm going to go to the Solid Tools toolbar, and right here in the middle we've got Turn On Solid Control Points, so we see a lot of control points just like the curves that I mentioned, and we can actually make clean edits. The one caveat I would like to mention, you would need to move things fairly straight or diagonal along the surface that they're on, and then it works great, so if you have something that's very organic, it's just not…

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