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Creating sharp features

Creating sharp features - Meshmixer Tutorial

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Creating sharp features

- [Instructor] This video is on how to create a sharp edge in Meshmixer. There's a few different ways to do it so we'll go through from more easy to more advanced. We're going to start off by going to Sculpt. The different tools inside of Sculpt are pretty useful. Again, as you know from the reference section for these tools, the DrawPlus command creates a point that goes to kind of a sphere that builds up. So not really a line. The Draw2 command will get you a little bit closer there. It goes up to a point. But only to a point, not to an actual line. If you wanted to make that more of a knife edge, a good tool for that is Pinch. So I'm going to turn Flow on for this. And as you know, -50. Pinch is towards you as the viewer and 50 is away. So we're going to keep it at -50. Going to press the C key to center on this. And just scrub down. So at a -50 and about a half strength, it goes pretty well, it goes pretty quickly to make a nice edge. If you turn the strength up, it happens much…

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