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Introduction
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Overview & Versions of formZ |
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About this Tutorial |
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The 3D Modeling Environment |
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Features of formZ |
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Installation & Memory Management |
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Launching formZ |
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The Interface
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Screen Features |
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The Graphics Window & Window Tool Palette |
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Viewing & Zooming |
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The Prompts Palette |
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The Colors/Surface Styles Palette |
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Getting Help |
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Turning Tools Off & On |
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Saving Your Preferences |
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Keyboard Command Differences between Mac & PC |
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Drawing 2D Shapes
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Drawing Rectangles |
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Drawing Polygons (Simple & Patterned) |
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Drawing Circles & Ellipses |
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Generating Line Drawings |
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Drawing Arcs |
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Mixing Straight Lines & Arcs |
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Drawing Spline Curves |
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Drawing Sketches & Stream Lines |
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Drawing 2D Enclosures |
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Drawing with Numeric Input |
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Drawing, Viewing & Rendering 3D Objects
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3D Extrusions |
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3D Extrusions Converged (to a Point) |
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3D Enclosures |
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Heights of Objects |
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Plotting & Rendering Objects |
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Types of Facetted Objects Generated by formZ |
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Generating 3D Primitives
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Generating a Primitive Cube |
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Generating Cones & Cylinders |
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Generating Spheres |
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Generating Tori |
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How the Analytic Primitives are Displayed |
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Generating Spherical Objects |
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Picking Objects
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Picking & Unpicking Objects |
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The Topological Levels |
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Prepicking & Postpicking |
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Moving, Rotating, Sizing & Mirroring Objects
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Moving Objects |
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Reading 3D Space |
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Moving Entities at Different Topological Levels |
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Rotating Objects |
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Resizing (Scaling) Objects |
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Mirror Objects |
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Copying Objects |
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Numerically Defined Transformations |
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Derivative Objects
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Derivative 3D Objects |
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Ghosted Objects |
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Derivative Objects from Parts of Other Objects |
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Derivative Objects from Complete Objects |
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Derivative Surface Objects |
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Parallel Objects |
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Unfolding Objects |
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Terrain Models
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Meshed Terrain Model |
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Stepped Terrain Model |
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Triangulated Contour Model |
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Objects of Revolution
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Lathed Objects |
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Helixes |
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Stairs
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Spiral Stairs |
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Stairs from Paths |
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Stairs from Contour Lines |
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Sweeps Along Paths
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Axial Sweeps |
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Two Source Sweeps |
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Two Path Sweeps |
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Boundary Sweeps |
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Sweeps Along Faces of Objects |
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Skinning
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Skins Along Paths |
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Generating Nurbz from Skins |
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Cross Skinning |
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Meshes
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Plain Meshes |
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Smooth Meshes |
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Reducing the Resolution of Meshes |
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Deformations
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Profiles & Mesh Movement |
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Point Disturbances |
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Object deformation |
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Rounding Objects
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Plain Rounding |
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Controlled Rounding |
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Curved Line Meshes
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Controlled Curves |
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Controlled Meshes |
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Nurbz Meshes |
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Patches
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Deriving Patches |
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Growing, Stitching & Attaching Patches |
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Dividing Patches |
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Metaformz
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Generating & Evaluating Metaballs |
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Generating & Evaluating Metaformz |
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Modeling with Metaformz |
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Boolean, Trim & Stitch Operations
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Union, Intersection & difference of 2D Shapes |
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Union, Intersection & difference of 3D Shapes |
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Objects Splitting Each Other |
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2D Booleans for 3D Modeling |
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Trimming & Stitching |
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Sections of Objects & Contours
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2D Sections |
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3D Sections |
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Deriving Contour Lines |
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Text
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Placing & Editing Text |
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Text Along Path & Between Lines |
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Editing Text Control Lines |
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Symbols & Instances
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Creating Symbol Definitions |
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Placing Symbols |
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Attaching
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Attaching Objects |
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Point-to-Point Attachments |
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Segment-to-Segment Attachments |
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Face-to-Face Attachments |
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Setting the Justification Options |
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Object-to-Object Attachments |
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Attaching Surface Objects |
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Aligning & Distributing
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Aligning & Distributing Options |
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Extending Segments to Surfaces
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Extending Options |
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Placing Objects on Other Objects
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Placing Options |
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Attributes, Layers & Querying
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Coloring Objects & Their Faces |
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Placing Objects on Layers |
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Querying Objects & Their Parts |
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Insertions & Deletions
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Inserting Outlines |
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Inserting faces & Volumes |
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Inserting Holes |
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Inserting Openings |
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Deleting Points, Segments, Outlines & Faces |
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Reference Planes & Their Palette
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Defining Arbitrary Reference Planes |
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Switching Planes from the Palette |
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The Reference Plane Tools |
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Views & Their Palettes
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Saving Custom Views |
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The Viewing Tools |
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Model Example - Three Story Building Frame
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File Organization & Set-Up |
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Constructing Slab & Columns |
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Duplicating & Locating Slabs & Columns |
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Constructing & Duplicating Stairs |
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Visualizing the Model |
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Model Example - Site & Small Building
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Creating Walls, Openings and Insertions |
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Creating the Roof |
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Creating the Site |
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Visualizing the Completed Project |
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Model Example - Sail Boat using Mesh Techniques
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Creating the Hull |
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Creating the Mast & Sails |
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Merging Parts and Visualizing Project |
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Model Example - A Flower using NURBS
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Creating the Exterior Pedals |
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Creating the Interior Pedals |
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Creating the Bud, Stem & Leaves |
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Model Example - Toy Duck using Cage & Patches
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Creating the Cage |
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Editing the Cage |
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Refining the Cage Form |
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Converting the Cage to a Patch Object |
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Detaching a Piece of the Cage |
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Model Example - A Mousehead using Metaformz & Patches
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Creating the Head using Metaformz |
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Creating the Ears using Patches |
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Creating the Nose |
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Creating the Eyes |
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Credits
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About the Author |
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