21.4 Modeling

This palette includes the tools with which you can model the primitives. With them, you can stretch, smooth, bevel, and so forth.
For more details see the chapter User Manual/Tools/Modeling.

Standard Interface

Workshop Interface

1	Deformer	Stretch, Scale, Rotate, Taper, Twist, Bend.
2	Mold	Mold with interactive control on the area of influence. Mold with interactive control on the force of attraction.
3	Bend	Bend an object using an existing curve. Bend an object using a curve created within the Bend tool.
4	Stretch
5	Delete
6	Smooth	Several smoothing methods. Sharp edges and smoothing angles.
7	Chamfer
8	Thickness	Apply a thickness to a surface or a volume. Apply a thickness to a curve, Creating an offset(8a).
9	Cut	Cutting along a plane, Punch, Boolean, Extract.
10	Decimate/Tessellate

Some modeling tools cannot operate on a NURBS object. To use these tools, you would have to transform your NURBS object into a polygonal model. This transformation is done through the Information tool of the Control Panel. (See chapter User Manual/ Modeling help tools/Control Panel/Get info.) However, keep in mind that a NURBS model transformed into a polygonal object cannot be transformed back into a NURBS object. So do not use these tools if you need your models to remain as NURBS objects.