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Shells

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- All right, let's switch gears a little bit. And, let's talk about the shell tool. So, if you go to the tool box, you have the shell tool here, and so, if you double click on that, you can kind of see what it's capabilities are. Again, we have the ability to adjust where that tight is. So, that base of that shell is going to be. And, a shell is really just a more complex kind of roof structure. But, it can also represent other types of elements. So, you can have a dome, you can have a multi pitched shell, and you could also do like a rotated shell, and you can start to create different elements that you wouldn't normally be able to create with the roof tool alone. So, let's quickly look at this and let's put it on the roof. And so, I'm going to leave all these settings pretty much the same. And, we're just going to create a simple barrel roof. Let's do that on the side here. So, first I click. And, this is going to…

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