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The 3D Revolve settings

The 3D Revolve settings - Illustrator Tutorial

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The 3D Revolve settings

In this exercise I'll be explaining how to use the various settings inside the 3D revolve options dialog box. I'm still working away inside Half an apple.ai, which is found inside the 29_3D folder, and I've managed to take that selected path outline, which is the Half an Apple itself, and revolve it around a vertical axis in order to create a complete Apple form. Now it doesn't really have that much definition at this particular angle, but we can go ahead and switch that around. I notice that we've got these color- coded controls here, which allow you to spin the object in 3D space. So currently, for example, even though we're revolving the Path outlined around a Vertical axis, we've gone ahead and rotated that Vertical axis in 3D space, so that the Apple can spin back and forth, and you do that using these various controls right here. Now, rather than calling these the XYZ controls, which is a little bit misleading, because they are not really listed in the conventional order…

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