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Creating complex shapes

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Creating complex shapes

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As a final step for our knob, I want to spend some time just refining that handle a little bit more so it looks a little bit more like our oven knob. So I'm actually going to go ahead and rotate this oven knob to its side here. So that when I'm looking at it from the above view, I'm kind of seeing a side view. And I'm actually going to drive this down into the platform using that z-cone. All right. I'm going to pan this intermouse fill. So what's bothering me is that in our real oven knob there's a nice, sloping profile to the handle. And right here our's is a little square, and boring and not probably very easy to hold on to. And so we're going to work on creating a shape to cut away at this. I'm going to start assembling some cylinders and boxes to kind of emulate that sloping profile. And I'm going to be pretty casual about this as I'm doing it. Just rotating shapes and lining them up in a way that feels right to me. Drag another cylinder in. This one can be a little bit bigger…

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