1st Four Essential Skill Movies

Here are my notes from the first four Essential Skill Movies.

Zoom, Pan, & Roll

·      See Objects Up Close – Press F Key

·      To tumble (spin view) – Hold Option key and drag with left mouse button.

·      To track (pan view) – Hold option key and drag with middle mouse button.

·      To dolly (zoom) – Hold the option key and drag with right mouse button

Move, Rotate, Scale

·      To see four views – Press Spacebar

·      You get the top, left, and right – orthographic views

·      Move button, Rotate button, Scale button

·      Three axises, x,y,z

·      To move an object freely or scale uniformly –drag the central handle

Create and View Objects

·      NURBS and Polygons

·      Polygons are made of faces, each one is flat

·      NURBS are made of curves, smooth

·      Select NURBS Primitives or Polygon Primitives from the Create Menu and select a shape.

·      Click and drag to create the shape.

·      Channel Box displays information for an object.

·      The transform attributes (position, scale) are at the top

·      View shape attributes – Click word under INPUTS

·      In Panel Tool Bar – Click the 3 different cubes to switch between display objects.

·      Control how smooth objects look in the view with the 1,2,3 keys.

o   Doesn’t change the real shape of the object

Component Selection

·      Can work on entire NURBS/Polygons in object mode

·      Work on parts of an object in component mode.

·      To select a component, press and hold over the object with the right mouse button and select the one you want.

·      When objects overlap, you select them.

·      Deselect all, click empty space.

·      To add to existing selection, press shift and click

·      Deselect some, press control and click