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Using the Create Polygon tool

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Using the Create Polygon tool

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In this video, I'm going to show you how to create the main body footprint using the Create Polygon tool. So, in chapter two, let's open up file F1_Footprints. On the right hand side, under the channel box layer editor, you'll note that we have the reference image visible and at the very top, we have a layer that represents the end result of this particular video. Let's hide the main body footprint. And let's take a look at this reference image. If I Ctrl+A for attributes, and if we go down to the bottom to Image Sensor, you'll notice that we have; x is 0, y is 0 and z is minus 0.05. And the reason why I've dropped it a fraction in z is because, if we go to our top view, we will be creating a flat planar polygon on top of this image plane. If they are both at the same value of z, sometimes they can interfere, and it's hard to distinguish between the two. So, let's go ahead to Mesh>Create Polygon Tool, and let's open up our options. Let's just reset that tool, and it's very simple…

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