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Splines

Splines - AutoCAD for Mac Tutorial

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Splines

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- [Instructor] A spline is a complex object in AutoCAD, similar to a polyline, but infinitely more involved. When a polyline is exploded or broken down, it breaks down into arcs and lines. This would seem to make it a more mathematically based object. However, despite its very fluid shape, a spline is technically more mathematical in nature owing its tangential curves and arcs to polynomial functions. Like ellipsis, they can be a bear to work with if ever exploded or broken apart and they don't particularly play well with 3D modeling functions. However like ellipsis, for the most part, we can let AutoCAD do all the math for us and we can focus on creating some very interesting shapes. Like the polyline tool, we can create fluid closed shapes or splines can be open ended like polylines as well. I can either type spline in the command line or I can find the tool here under the draw tool set. From here, I can just start picking my points. Notice the points we're picking are not vertices,…

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