NURBS Modeling

January 24, 2003

By Brian J. Immel

Drawing Curves on Surfaces

1. Select geometry

2. Click on Make Live button from the menu bar. The selected surface will turn to a wireframe and green. Now you can draw with any curve tool on that surface you like.

3. Once you have made all the curves you like, click on the Make Live button to turn off this feature.

4. Once you have a curve drawn on the surface, select it. You’ll see that you can move it across the surface and the CVs of that curve will conform to the surface.

 

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