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- [Instructor] One feature that is very cool to use when you're trying to segment, or make equal value sketches on top of surfaces, is the Face Curves tool. So, it's very easy to use, and like the description says, it extracts isoparametric curves from a face, and then, converts them into a 3D sketch. What does that mean? Let's click on the feature and find out. So, I'm just going to start by clicking on this top face. Alright, as you can see, we've pretty much generated what this sketch is going to be. Because this is on a flat face, it's essentially a 2D sketch, but it will come up as a 3D sketch. You can see here, I can show what the mesh is going to be, so if I want to have six sections, one, two, three, four, five sections, but six lines, one, two, three, four, five, six blue lines, and the red lines, one, two, three, four five. So, we can adjust these if I want 10 lines. If I want them to be equal, I can make them equal. It's whatever you want. You can constrain them to the…

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