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Taking advantage of symmetry

Taking advantage of symmetry - Inventor Tutorial

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Taking advantage of symmetry

- [Voiceover] On the screen, you can see the form that we created in the previous movie. If you're following along, yours might look significantly different from this. If you're just stepping in, I have saved this sculpted form in the exercise files, in case you want to start from here and follow along. Again, while you're sculpting digital clay, there's not always a right or wrong answer. So as we move through this portion of the course, the things I'm doing might be slightly different. What's important here is to understand the concepts and the overall process. In this movie, I wanna talk a little bit about symmetry. Because symmetry comes in really handy. To begin, let's edit our form by double-clicking on it in the browser. We're now entered into the freeform editing environment and you can see our model is purple, and you'll notice that there's a dotted line running along the center. This is the symmetry line that's been applied. When we created this initial form, the dialog box…

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