From the course: Product Design: From CAD to 3D Model
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Sketching the handle's curves
From the course: Product Design: From CAD to 3D Model
Sketching the handle's curves
- [Instructor] Alright, so let's get started with building the curves for the handle. The first thing I want to do is, if you look in your perspective menu, the curves of the screwdriver is laying down, flat. We kind of want them upright, especially in the front view, which is right here. So to begin, let's go ahead and select everything in our screen. So from right to left, we'll draw a bounding box. I'm going to go down to the bottom of Rhino and look for the gumball and turn it on. And we'll use one of these rotation arcs to rotate our model. Just pay attention to the orientation of its axis. So the red is what we need to rotate. We go over here and click on the red arc. And you can simply type in, 90 degrees. And now it's standing upright, you can see it on the front view. The next thing we need to do is select the blade and tip curves, and we want to lock it, so you could go up here to this lock icon, or you could go to the command line and type in lock. From here, I want to…
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