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Understanding the edit form tool

Understanding the edit form tool - Inventor Tutorial

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Understanding the edit form tool

- [Voiceover] On the screen, you can see the base T-spline form we created in the previous movie. As we continue on through these movies in this section of the course, we'll start to sculpt this into a more ergonomic mouse shape. To begin, we need to edit the form, and we can do that by double-clicking on it in the Browser. By doing that, we enter the Freeform mode. You can tell because, on the Toolbar, we now have a Freeform tab, and all the Tools we need to edit this geometry are available to us. The one we're going to focus on and use most here is the Edit Form tool. You can find that in the Freeform tab under the Edit panel, here on the Ribbon Bar. Really, you're going to access this most often through the right-click menu. It's the option here at the top, and when you bring that up, you see the Edit Form dialog box. And there's a lot of different things here that we could look at, but for this course, an essentials course, we're going to focus on the things that are most…

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