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Generate tensile membranes

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Generate tensile membranes

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- [Instructor] This week I'm going to create a tensile membrane using a plugin and I've provided this exercise file for you to work with. It has masts and anchor points and it also has lines connecting these points of anchorage. Now, the actual tensile membrane isn't going to have straight edges, it's going to be bowed inward in arcs, so our first task really is to draw in those arcs. I'm going to double click on this line here to open that group and then go up to View, Component Edit, Hide Rest of Model so I can focus in just on these lines which represent the edges of the tensile membrane. And to start this process, I'm going to just draw a line from some arbitrary points along these edges to create a surface. And this will help me creating an arc because now I can see which plane it would be in. I'll use the arc tool and click the first point of the arc down here and the other endpoint up there and then I'm going to position the cursor along this face and I'd like to have that arc…

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