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Model faster with Tweak mode

Model faster with Tweak mode - CINEMA 4D Tutorial

From the course: Cinema 4D Weekly

Model faster with Tweak mode

- [Instructor] Welcome to another Cinema 4D Weekly. This week, I'm going to share with you a tool that's going to help speed up your modeling workflow. When modeling, you're going to need to be switching between point, edge and polygon mode a ton, and having to always click the button for each of these modes can really interrupt your flow and waste time. Now, you can toggle between different modes by hitting the return key, and while that's handy, hitting the return key to cycle through to whichever mode you want can still be a pain. Answer? The polygon pen. Now the polygon pen is a pretty under the radar tool, but it's got one very helpful feature outside, of course, just being able to draw polygons, and that feature is tweak mode. To activate the polygon pen, hit M, to bring up your modeling shortcut menu, and then hit E. With the polygon pen active and tweak mode turned on, which it is by default, you can simply hover…

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