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Using the Analysis toolbar to understand characteristics of a model

Using the Analysis toolbar to understand characteristics of a model - Rhino Tutorial

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Using the Analysis toolbar to understand characteristics of a model

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Next up, I'll review commands found on the analyze toolbar. These are very helpful after importing a model from someone else, so you can check or match their sizes. The tools could be just as valuable, though, for your own models, when you haven't worked on the project in a while and forgot what you did. First, let's take a look, where analyze commands were located on the menu. So we have a lot of options here. I'm going to instead go ahead and open up the toolbar, so let's click on a blank area. Show toolbar. Select Analyze. I'm not going to dock this, because we're just kind of running out of space up there, and probably won't use these very much. So let's go ahead and just leave it where it is. Let's start in general order here. This first one's called direction. This is very useful for when you have problems with booleans. You want to see which direction the surface is considering outwards. So we can select a few objects here. So for most complicated polysurfaces, Rhino usually…

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