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T-Splines introduction

T-Splines introduction - Inventor Tutorial

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T-Splines introduction

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- We're now to a point in the course where we're going to talk about one of the more exciting features in Inventor. It's a fairly new feature called T-Splines that allows you to create geometry that acts as if it's digital clay. Once you start creating more complex shapes, like a more complex ergonomic mouse, or a coffeemaker, or a sawzall, or a drill, or something along those lines, you're starting to get into product design, and in that environment, this ability to use digital clay within a mechanical environment, is incredibly powerful. The best way for you to understand is for me to show you what we can do. I'm not gonna create anything fancy, we'll start to create something as we move through this course, but I wanted to show you what this digital clay is capable of. I've created a basic T-Spline body here, and I'm gonna leave all the default settings, except I'm gonna turn on some symmetry, and what that allows me to do is begin manipulating this, by editing the form and…

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