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Essential 3ds max 2008
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Essential 3ds max 2008

by Sean McBride
March 2008
Beginner content levelBeginner
445 pages
15h 43m
English
Jones & Bartlett Learning
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Cut and Slice Plane
The Cut tool — some people swear by it, other people hate it.
I’m somewhere in between the two to be honest, and it’s
mostly due to its inability to work correctly in the Perspective
view sometimes. I’ll explain in a bit, but for now let’s start off
by creating a sphere and making it an Editable Polygon object.
In the Edge sub-object mode, scroll down on the command
panel until you see the Cut tool. It will be in the Edit Geome-
try rollout. Go ahead and click on it, then click somewhere on
your sphere. This will place a vertex where you want to start
your cut, almost like you’re pushing a knife into the sphere.
Now click somewhere ...
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ISBN: 9781598220506