Creating complex designs with form tools

Module overview

Learn about form tools as an option when creating complex designs. Form tools allow for a different design approach than the traditional sketch and feature creation by allowing you to explore shapes while pushing and pulling vertices, faces, and edges.  Explore the basics of form creation and manipulation as well as advanced control and creation of designs with forms.

After completing this module, you'll be able to:

• Create a primitive form body.
• Use form tools to create a complex shape.
• Convert a body to a form.

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Module outline

• Introduction to forms
• Create a form primitive
• Add or remove symmetry
• Manipulate faces edges and vertices
• Convert BREP faces to forms
• Crease or uncrease an edge
• Insert edges and subdivisions
• Repairs and modifications
• Add a bevel
• Work with a form as a BREP
• Practice exercise
• Challenge exercise