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Introduction to organic shapes with T-Splines - Inventor Tutorial
From the course: Autodesk Inventor 2021 Essential Training
Introduction to organic shapes with T-Splines
- [Instructor] As we continue to explore how to create complex shapes and forms, I wanted to take a moment and introduce T-splines. While I know this is an essentials course and we won't get into a lot of depth in T-splines, I want to make sure everybody understands what it is and what it's capable of so that when you get to this point in your designs, you can take advantage of it, if it makes sense. On the screen, I have a basic form. And you don't have to follow along here, we'll get into the details in the next couple of movies. But I briefly wanted to just show what's capable in T-splines. I've already got a form created so I can just double click it in the browser and I am now placed in my Freeform environment where I can start to manipulate this digital clay. By editing the form, we have control to change vertex points, lines, bodies. We can add and remove symmetry, things along those lines to create very complex…
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Part feature introduction3m 21s
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Create a base extrusion7m 4s
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Create an extrusion to next face3m 53s
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Create revolves7m 34s
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Create a sweep5m 20s
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Complex shapes with the Loft tool8m 25s
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Controlling lofts with rails6m 22s
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Introduction to organic shapes with T-Splines1m 35s
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Create a base T-Splines form2m 54s
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Editing sculpted shapes using edit form4m 2s
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