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Using the new solid control points - Rhino Tutorial
From the course: Rhino 5 Essential Training
Using the new solid control points
Next up, we'll explore the one command that makes it so much easier to work with solids, solid control points. When this first came out, I was a little bit skeptical. But it can save you a ridiculous amount of time by letting you make easy changes to very complicated bottles that are already complete, without having to start over. How is this possible? Let's take a look. We'll start o by zooming in to this final landing gear And give you a couple of cases where it works well, and maybe not as well. Let's start with where it works great, but first, let's switch over to Ghosted mode. This will allow us to see the control points much easier on opposite sided geometry. I'm going to make sure we pick the correct ones. There's always some hiding on the opposite side. So these solid control points are accessed via the Solid Tool toolbar. Here's the icon. By the way, these are control points, but they're a little bit different with the solid object. Cannot hit the F10 to access them. You have…
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Introducing solids3m 26s
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Making solids with primitives3m 19s
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Extruding curves to create solids without primitives8m 25s
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Editing solids with the Boolean functions5m 15s
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Troubleshooting solids and Booleans6m 41s
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Using the new solid control points4m 58s
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Utilizing the powerful sub-object select5m 15s
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