Create skin surfaces

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Transcript

00:02

So I'll double click on the Skin tool to open the Control window.

00:06

And in its simplest form, skin just needs one input curve and then a second curve

00:11

and it builds a straight line ruled surface between the two.

00:16

And I can then continue picking

00:18

one and then two

00:20

or I can use a drag-select to get both in one go.

00:25

Now, if these manipulators are getting in the way I can turn those off here.

00:30

And then this allows me to quickly create a lot of skin surfaces.

00:36

And it's tempting to think that we could pick all of these in one go.

00:39

But what it does is try to connect them into a single skin surface,

00:42

so it doesn't really work.

00:45

So let's now take a look at these wheel arch curves. And with skin,

00:48

I can just connect this one to this one.

00:51

And I'll put the manipulators back on and see how those work by going to a side view.

00:56

So Connect here uses the full length of the input curves.

00:59

Default goes to the shortest input set

01:02

and Extend goes to the longest.

01:06

And this can also be set in this Flow Control section.

01:09

And here with the Connect Ends option, I have Modify Range

01:13

and that allows me to custom fit the skin surface to a portion of those input curves.

01:20

So I could use this Next button in the Control window.

01:24

But I can also just directly click this curve

01:26

and let's choose the skin surface this time.

01:29

And if I use the Default option, I get the result that I'm after.

01:33

So on the front wheel arch, I've used a number of curves for each boundary.

01:38

And I can either do these one-by-one as before

01:42

or if I want to be a bit more efficient, I can use the Chain Select option here.

01:47

And that means that I can pick all of these tangent continuous curves as one input set,

01:53

and then these four as the second.

01:56

And that then creates four separate surfaces in a skin group.

02:00

And then I do the same for the inside surfaces.

Video transcript

00:02

So I'll double click on the Skin tool to open the Control window.

00:06

And in its simplest form, skin just needs one input curve and then a second curve

00:11

and it builds a straight line ruled surface between the two.

00:16

And I can then continue picking

00:18

one and then two

00:20

or I can use a drag-select to get both in one go.

00:25

Now, if these manipulators are getting in the way I can turn those off here.

00:30

And then this allows me to quickly create a lot of skin surfaces.

00:36

And it's tempting to think that we could pick all of these in one go.

00:39

But what it does is try to connect them into a single skin surface,

00:42

so it doesn't really work.

00:45

So let's now take a look at these wheel arch curves. And with skin,

00:48

I can just connect this one to this one.

00:51

And I'll put the manipulators back on and see how those work by going to a side view.

00:56

So Connect here uses the full length of the input curves.

00:59

Default goes to the shortest input set

01:02

and Extend goes to the longest.

01:06

And this can also be set in this Flow Control section.

01:09

And here with the Connect Ends option, I have Modify Range

01:13

and that allows me to custom fit the skin surface to a portion of those input curves.

01:20

So I could use this Next button in the Control window.

01:24

But I can also just directly click this curve

01:26

and let's choose the skin surface this time.

01:29

And if I use the Default option, I get the result that I'm after.

01:33

So on the front wheel arch, I've used a number of curves for each boundary.

01:38

And I can either do these one-by-one as before

01:42

or if I want to be a bit more efficient, I can use the Chain Select option here.

01:47

And that means that I can pick all of these tangent continuous curves as one input set,

01:53

and then these four as the second.

01:56

And that then creates four separate surfaces in a skin group.

02:00

And then I do the same for the inside surfaces.

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