Create objects in Alias

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I'm going to use the palette in a horizontal orientation.

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And I'm going to create some subdivision and some surface primitives.

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In icon mode, this blue triangle here tells me there's a submenu.

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So if I do a click and hold, I can choose a cylinder, for example.

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And then it's shown up here as the current continuous tool.

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And if I follow the prompt, I can just click in the scene

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and then I'll just turn the shading on.

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And because this is a continuous tool, it's inviting me to place another cylinder.

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So this time I'm going to switch to a side orthographic view and place one

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and then I'll switch to another view and place another cylinder.

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And you can see that the view I chose affects the orientation.

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Now we're still in the Cylinder tool,

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so it's very easy to accidentally keep clicking.

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So to exit a tool, there isn't a specific done command in Alias

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and instead we do a Pick Nothing followed by a Pick Object.

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And now we're no longer placing cylinders.

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So let's select these and hit the Delete key,

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and have a look at how we might use this to

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create a couple of wheel outlines for this car model.

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So I'll just fit the view and switch to a side view.

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And this small square here means that I can double-click or Shift +

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click to open an options window.

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So I can for example, turn off these end caps.

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And this blue outline on a tool window means I need to hit the Go button to move on.

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And this time I'm going to use grid snap by holding down

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the Alt key before I click to accurately snap to the origin.

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And then I can move scale or rotate.

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And this pale blue handle does all three axes so I can click release on a scale handle

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and change that center one from move to scale.

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And then with the green handle,

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I can scale it in the Y direction only, and then

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I can use the green arrow to move it outwards.

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So I could now exit the tool with a Pick Nothing and a Pick Object.

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But in the normal flow of work, we would simply move on to the next tool.

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So I'll pick a subdivision cylinder this time for the rear wheel

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and I can open the settings window again

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and then I'll switch to a side view

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and use the grid snap again

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and scale it and move it as before.

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But here, if I just use the box mode shading,

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you can see that because this window doesn't have the blue outline,

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it stays open

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and I can adjust these values interactively

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and then I can close it and finish off just by doing a Pick Nothing

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followed by Pick Object.