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Creating the key bed

Creating the key bed - MODO Tutorial

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Creating the key bed

- [Instructor] In this video, I'm going to create the key bed, which is going to be a wooden enclosure which the synthesizer keys are going to sit within. I've created a new empty mesh item and I've named it key bed. I'm in Component mode. The first thing I want to do is just to raise the Work Plane until it comes to about here on the side panel. I'm going to do this with the Page Up key. Once I'm happy with the position of the Work Plane, I'll activate the Cube primitive tool and I'm going to draw out a cube just coming out from the control panel. I'm just adjusting so I can see a bit more clearly. I'll zero it on the X so that it's centered. Make sure that the edges are penetrating inside the side panels. Let me just adjust the height as well and then give it some depth down to about here. I can always adjust it later if I need to once the keys are being created. I want to just pull it out a fraction more. With that done, I hit Q to drop the Cube tool. Then I'll select these two…

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