Tutorial 3

Responsive Structure Tutorial

Set preferences and cameras
Select surfaces in menu sets
Go to create -NURBS primitive- plane- click box and reset tool.
Scale plane to 50’- 50’
Go to edit NURBS- rebuild surfaces- click box and set number of U spans to 10 and number of V spans to 10
Create layer for surface- add surface
With surface selected got to edit curves- duplicate surface curves
Create two new layers: curves1, curves2 – put U curves on one layer, and V curves on the other.
Turn off surface layer and one of the curve layers
Move one set of curves down (Z) 1’
Engage snap to point
Go to create- NURBS primitive- circle- click on box and rest tool
Snap circle at the end of the first curve and rotate 90 degrees on X
Select circle then first curve go to surfaces- extrude- click on box- select tube and at path- extrude
Select circle and second curve- type g- repeat for all curves
Select all extruded tubes and place them on new layer called structure
Put circle on new layer called circle
Turn on surface layer and select- right click- control vertex
Manipulate CVs and watch structure respond.
Manipulate circle and watch structure respond.
21. Go to edit Offset surface