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Overview of 3D Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
Create Solids and Surfaces from Lines and Curves . . . . . . . . 342
Overview of Creating Solids and Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . 342
Create a Solid or Surface by Extruding . . . . . . . . . . . 346
Create a Solid or Surface by Sweeping . . . . . . . . . . . . 348
Create a Solid or Surface by Lofting . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
Create a Solid or Surface by Revolving . . . . . . . . . . . 352
Create Solids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
Overview of Creating 3D Solids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
Create 3D Solid Primitives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
Create a Polysolid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
Create 3D Solids from Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362
Combine or Slice 3D Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366
Check 3D Models for Interferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368
Create Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
Overview of Creating Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
Create Procedural Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
Create NURBS Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
Create Associative Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
Create Meshes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382
Overview of Creating Meshes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382
Create 3D Mesh Primitives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
Construct Meshes from Other Objects . . . . . . . . . . . 393
Create Meshes by Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397
Create Custom Mesh (Legacy) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
Create Wireframe Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404
Add 3D Thickness to Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406
Modify 3D Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
Overview of Modifying 3D Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
Use Gizmos to Modify Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
Overview of Using Gizmos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
Use the Gizmos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
Move 3D Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412
Rotate 3D Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
Scale 3D Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416
Use Grips to Modify Solids and Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418
Use 3D Subobject Grips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418
Cycle Through and Filter Subobjects . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
Use Grips to Edit 3D Solids and Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . 420
Modify 3D Subobjects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423
Move, Rotate, and Scale 3D Subobjects . . . . . . . . . . . 423
Modify Faces on 3D Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425
Modify Edges on 3D Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
Modify Vertices on 3D Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432
Work with Complex 3D Solids and Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . 433
Display Original Forms of Composite Solids . . . . . . . . 434
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