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Show and hide options

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- When it comes to working with splines, we have a few options for showing and hiding. Right now, there's not much seen here. When we click on it we have our control arms, and our different points, and things like that. But if I go up to spline tools, and go to the show options, here, I can start showing thing like spline handles, control polygons, inflection points, minimum radii, and curvature. These options, one, two, three, four, five, are available here in our spline tools window. We've only got four of them, so we'll have to use the feature to bring them down. So, I'm going to go ahead and click this spline. It activates these options. Now, already we have the spline handles shown, so we can turn those on and off right there. I'm going to toggle that back on. We can show the inflection points. We can show the minimum radius, which is that 3.8575 radius over there. And then, we can also show the curvature comb. Now, this is a lot of information to see at once. But, if we want to…

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