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298 Chapter 5: Creating Geometry
Bezier vertex (left) and Bezier Corner ver tex (right)
To copy and paste vertex tangent handles:
1.
Turn on Vertex Selection, then Select the
vertex you want to copy from.
2. On the Geometry rollout scroll down to the
Tang ent g roup a nd c lic k Copy.
3. Move your cursor over the vertices in the
viewport. The cursor changes to a copy cursor.
Click the handle you wish to copy.
4. On the Geometry rollout scroll down to the
Tang ent g roup a nd c lic k Paste .
5. Move your cursor over the vertices in the
viewport. The cursor changes to a paste cursor.
Click the handle you wish to paste to.
The vertex tangency changes in the view port.
To reset vertex handle tangency:
It is easy to make the handles very small a nd
coincident with the vertex, which m akes them
hard to select and edit. Reset t he vertex hand le
tangency to redraw your handles
1. Select the vertex that is problematic.
2. Right-click and choose Reset Tangents.
Anyvertexhandleeditingyouhavedoneis
discarded and the handles are reset.
Inter face
Soft Sele ction rollout
For information on the Soft Selection rollout
settings, see Soft Selection Rollout (page 1–963).
Geom etry rollout
New Ver tex Type group
The radio buttons in this group let you determine
thetangencyofthenewverticescreatedwhenyou
Shi f t +Clone segments or splines. If you later use
Connect Copy, vertices on the splines that connect
the original segment or spline to the new one will
havethetypespecifiedinthisgroup.
This sett ing has no effect on the tangency of
vertices created using tools such as the Create Line
button, Refine, and s o on.
•
Linear—New vertices will have linear tangency.
•
Smooth—New vertices will have smooth
tangency.
When this option is chosen, new vertices that
overlap are automatically welded.
•
Bezier—New vertices will have b ezier tangency.
•
B ezier Cor ner—New vertices will have bezier
corner tangency.
Cr e a te Lin e —Adds more splines to the selected
object. These lines are separate spline sub-objects;
createtheminthesamewayastheline spline (page
1–270). To exit line creation, right-click or click
to turn off Create Line.
Break—Splits a spline at the selected vertex or
vertices. S elect one or more vertices and then
click Break to create the split. There are now two