Practice exercise

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This is a practice exercise video solution.

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For this practice, we're going to start with a new untitled document and begin by selecting create form.

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We want to create a cylinder form.

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By selecting cylinder, we first need to select a plane and then we need to draw a circle.

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In this case, I'm going to use 75 mm.

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Instead of placing that 75 mm with the enter, I'm going to hit tab and then move into my cylinder dialogue.

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From here we can modify the diameter value more.

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For example, by simply selecting 75 in the diameter box.

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For the rest of the values, we can use any of the values that we want.

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But I'm going to increase the height to 35 mm and leave everything else the same.

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We're going to say OK and now begin modifying the cylinder.

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The first thing that I want to do is select an entire vertical edge.

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I can do this by double clicking on one of them to grab the rest of the tangency.

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We're going to select modify edit form.

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We're going to view this from the top and note that the direction is not relative to our selection.

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We can modify this so that it is relative to the selection and then we can pull it out creating a Kamloops shape.

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I'm going to come out a distance of 30 mm.

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Change the coordinate space back to world space and then left click in the canvas area to deselect that.

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Next I'm going to double click one of the upper edges, holding down the alt key I'm going to begin dragging it up to create an extrude.

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While that edge is still selected, I'm going to use my scale tool to scale it inward.

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This allows me to make a rounded or tapered section.

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If I wish at this point with it still selected, I can move it up or down to change the shape.

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From here everything looks pretty good so I'm going to select OK on edit form.

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The next thing that I want to do is finish the form.

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Back in our design work space, you can see that we've made a smooth surface based on that form body.

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You can continue to make modifications but from here let's make sure that we do save this design and I'm going to call mine form - PE.

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And then save the design.