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Extract NURBS curves from surfaces

Extract NURBS curves from surfaces - Maya Tutorial

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Extract NURBS curves from surfaces

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- [Instructor] We've seen how to use curves to build NURBS surfaces, but we also can go the other way. We can take a NURBS surface, and use that to create curves. Now, these curves can be used as points to create other surfaces that attach NURBS surfaces together. So let's go ahead and take a look at how this works. Now it starts with an isoparm and this is just one other use of isoparms. So I'm going to select this object and right-click above it, and go into isoparm mode. And then I'm going to left-click at the end here, and drag this out. Now it doesn't really matter where this is. This is really just a demonstration. And so I have this isoparm, and if I want I can use this to create a curve. So if we go into Curves, you'll see that we have Duplicate Surface Curves. And when I do that, it creates a curve. Now this is a standard NURBS curve but this curve is also locked to the surface. Now I have history turned on, and because I have history turned on, this curve will follow along…

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