From the course: Building a Gaming Console in Rhino
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Using cords for scale - Rhino Tutorial
From the course: Building a Gaming Console in Rhino
Using cords for scale
- Next up, we'll explore a simple but cool technique for making power cords or data cables for our console. So besides showing that you understand your design needs power, it can also be a very effective way to indicate scale or add some interest to a rendering. Let's kick off by looking at a bad example which is always fun. I'm gonna come around to the back side and right off the bat, you should probably notice this cable looks a little too big. So definitely want to make sure this is the correct size in the scale. I'm also noticing this comes out of our case at a weird angle. So this is definitely missing what is called a strain relief. I'll show you one in a bit. Let's keep moving along here. I'm seeing that this cable is halfway buried. That's another common mistake. But down at the other end, it's actually floating. So you gotta be very careful how you create the curve so this pipe will keep it on the floor or ground plane. Finally you may have noticed, we have a little bit of a…
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