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Create radial surfaces with Revolve

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Create radial surfaces with Revolve

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- [Instructor] Now that we understand a little bit about how to create curves let's use those curves to create a nurbs surface. So, we'll start off with a simple surface called a revolve. And what this does is it takes a curve and revolves it around an axis to create a radial type of surface. So in order to do this, we do need a flat curve. So I'm going to start off in an orthographic viewport. So I'm going to hop out to a viewport here and let's go into a side viewport. And I'm also going to turn on snap and the reason I want to do that is because I want everything to be registered to zero so when we have the revolve everything lines up the way that we want. So I'm going to snap to grid here. And let's go ahead and do create curve tools CV curve tool. So, if I click at the origin you'll see that the first point snaps there. We can create a second point. And now we can start to create a shape. So let's create a simple bowl here. So I'm going to go ahead and just click my way around…

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