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Lathe Sur face 1191
The Flip Normals control lets you flip the
surface normals at creation time. (After
creation, you can flip normals using controls on
the Surface Common rollout.)
3. Adjust the lathe parameters.
Inter face
While a lathe sub-object is selected, a rollout w ith
the lathe parameters is displayed at the bottom of
the Modify panel.
Lathe Surface rollout (creation time)
Degrees —Sets the angle of rotation. At 360 deg rees
(the default), the surface completely surrounds
the axis. At lower values, the surface is a partial
rotation.
A partial lathe (degrees=22 5)
Direction group
X, Y, and Z—Choose the axis of rotation. Default=Y.
X, Y, and Z rotations of the same curve
Align group
Thesebuttonspositiontheaxisofrotationrelative
to the curve.
Min—(The default.) Loc ates the lathe axis at the
curve’s negative local X-axis b oundary.
Center—Locatesthelatheaxisatthecurve’scenter.