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T-Splines introduction

T-Splines introduction - Inventor Tutorial

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T-Splines introduction

- [Voiceover] We're now to a point in the course where we're gonna 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 coffee maker or a sawzall or a drill or something along those lines, you're starting to get into product design. 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 going to 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. Now, what that allows me to do is begin manipulating this by editing the form and…

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