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Making 3D spline curves

Making 3D spline curves - CATIA Tutorial

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Making 3D spline curves

- [Instructor] Now I'm going to talk about the Spline Function. You can either download the Exercise File or select F1 on the keyboard, if you have the help documentation, download the file and open it up. Let's get to it. So, here we have some points and the way the Spline window works is, you'll notice before we actually pick anything, is you have a little radio button right here. Add Point After, Add Point Before, and Replace Point, it's very important you pay attention to these as you're creating your spline. By default, it's always add the next point after the first one you selected. There's Point 1, Point 2, Point 3, and you'll notice the spline goes directly through those points. I'm going to open this up and you'll see, here's Point 1, Point 2, Point 3, number of points, and go on my merry way by selecting the rest of these points. Pretty straight-forward. I'm going to cancel, go back into Spline, and I'm going to select these in the opposite direction and I'm going to open…

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