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Orienting a flat panel layout

Orienting a flat panel layout

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Orienting a flat panel layout

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- [Instructor] In the last video, we worked on constructing a base plane for each of our panel parts and in this video we're going to use that base plane information to orient all of our panels flat and that'll be something that's crucial for taking our design through a step like CNC routing. So let's go ahead and bring up an orient component. We're going to use that to take each one of these individual panel sides here and lay them out flat. So the orient component takes in a base geometry and that's the thing that's going to get oriented. It takes in a source plane, so that's kind of the reference point. And it takes in a target plane and that's where we would want the orientation to go to. So here our geometry is going to flow out of an earlier step where we orient and rotate the whole extruded shelf, so I'm taking the output of that move component and that's going to plug into our geometry input. Now the base plane is the plane that we just figured out in the last video, so that's…

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