From the course: Rhino 6 Essential Training (2018)
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Sweeping rails - Rhino Tutorial
From the course: Rhino 6 Essential Training (2018)
Sweeping rails
- [Instructor] We now check out the Rail Sweep commands, these come in two flavors, 1-Rail Sweep and you guessed it, 19-Rail Sweep, just kidding. There's only 1-Rail and 2-Rail. But both can create surfaces that are flat and mechanical or smooth and organic. The looks for each, with these demos right down below, starting with the 1-Rail Sweep, you can find the command under the Surface menu, Sweep 1 Rail. Once we sweep the rail we don't have to right click or hit Enter to accept, now we proceed to select the cross-section curve, make sure you click a corresponding point, like at the top or the bottom. But don't switch up, so otherwise you get twisting. I'm gonna select this other one down here, now since I only want those two I'm gonna right click to proceed, and we get a nice clean curving wall which by the way since it's a single surface we can always turn on control points and continue to edit. I'm gonna turn those off and delete this, we're gonna try another little variation, I'm…
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