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the Colors panel (page 3–843) of the Customize
User Interface dialog (page 3–836)
.)
Unfuse—Unfuses the f used points.
Extend—Extends a point curve. Drag from the end
ofacurvetoaddanewpointandextendthecurve.
Wa rni ng: When you add points with Extend, you lose
the animation controllers for all points on the curve or
surface.
Mak e Independent—
Disabled if the point is
independent. If the point is dependent, clicking
this button makes it independent.
Wa rni ng: When you make a point independent, you
lose the animation controllers for all objec t s that depend
on it in turn.
Remove Animation—
Removes animation
controllers from the selected points.
Delete group
The buttons in this group box delete one or more
points.
Point—Deletes a single point (on a curve) or a row
and column of points (on a surface).
Row—Deletes a row from a surface.
Co l.—Deletes a column from a surface.
Wa rni ng: When you delete points, you lose the
animation controllers for all points on the curve or
surface.
Refine group
The buttons in this box refine point curves or
surface s by adding points to them.
Curve—Adds points to a point curve.
Sur f Row—Adds a row of points to a point surface.
Sur f Col.—Addsacolumnofpointstoapoint
surface.
Sur f Row & Col.—Adds both a row and a column
to a point surface; their intersection is where you
click the surface.
Wa rni ng: When you a dd points, you lose the animation
controllers for all points on the curve or surface.
Points Selected—
This text field shows how many
points are currently selected.
Editing Curve CV Sub-Objects
Modify panel > Select NURBS objec t or sub-objec t. >
Stack display > Curve CV sub-object level > S elec t CV
sub-objects.
Modify panel > Select NURBS objec t or sub-objec t. >
Right-click. > Tools 1 (upper-left) quadrant > Sub-objects
>CurveCV>SelectCVsub-objects.
This topic describes the controls for CV
sub-objects that lie on curves. A rollout labeled CV
contains the CV sub-object controls for NURBS
models. In addition to the CV rollout described
here, the Curve CV sub-object level displays the
Soft Selection rollout (page 1–1148) .
In you can edit the CVs in
CV curves on surfaces
(page 1–1174)
as you edit other kinds of curve
CVs. You can transform CVs in CV curves on
surfaces, but you can’t move the CVs off the
surface. Using the Curve CV sub-object level is an
alternativetoeditingtheseCVsbyusingthe
Edit
Curve on Surface (page 1–1230)
dialog.
Procedures
To tra nsfor m cur ve CV sub-objects:
1.
At the Curve CV sub-object level, select one or
more CVs.
The sub-object selection tools are the same as
for other kinds of sub-objects. You can also
usetheHkeywhilethestatusbar’sKeyboard
Shortcut Override Toggle button is on. See
Sub-Object S election (page 1–1086) .