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Table of Contents
NURBS Modeling...........................................................................................1
Viewports.....................................................................................................2
Viewport Title Menu...................................................................................2
Viewport Display Modes..............................................................................2
Mouse Navigation......................................................................................3
Viewport Projection....................................................................................3
Modeling Aids...............................................................................................4
Cursor Crosshairs, Marker, and Tracking Line.................................................4
Grid Snap.................................................................................................4
Ortho Mode...............................................................................................4
Distance Constraint....................................................................................5
Angle Constraint........................................................................................5
Elevator Mode...........................................................................................5
Coordinate Systems......................................................................................7
Cartesian Coordinates................................................................................7
World Coordinates.....................................................................................7
Construction Planes...................................................................................7
Relative Coordinates..................................................................................8
Object Snaps..............................................................................................10
Persistent Object Snaps............................................................................10
SmartTrack.............................................................................................11
Rhino’s Geometry Types.............................................................................12
Point Objects..........................................................................................12
Curves...................................................................................................12
Surfaces.................................................................................................12
Polysurfaces...........................................................................................15
Solids....................................................................................................15
Polygon Mesh Objects..............................................................................16
Edit Curves and Surfaces............................................................................17
Join.......................................................................................................17
Explode..................................................................................................17
Trim and Split.........................................................................................17
Control-Point Editing................................................................................17
Curve and Surface Degree........................................................................18
Transforms.................................................................................................19
Move.....................................................................................................19
Copy......................................................................................................19
Rotate....................................................................................................19
Scale.....................................................................................................19
Mirror....................................................................................................19
Orient....................................................................................................19
Array.....................................................................................................19