69, you can edit it. Don??™t drive yourself crazy; just get the spline as close as
you can.
5. With the spline selected, go to the Modify panel. In the Modifier Stack window,
you will see the entry Line with a plus sign in a black box next to it denoting that it
has sub-object modes. Click the plus sign (+) to expand the list of sub-objects, as
shown here.
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Figure 4.69
The knob??™s profile
line??™s vertices are
numbered according
to the order in
which they were
created.
When you are creating a line, you can click once to create a corner vertex for the line, but you
need to click and drag to create a Bezier vertex if you want to put a curve into the line.
modeling a chest of drawers ?– 163
A LINE??™S VERTEX TYPE
When you center your cursor over a line??™s vertex and right-click to bring up the shortcut
menu shown, you will have access to several vertex controls. In that shortcut menu, under
the Tools1 heading, you can choose a vertex type.
The vertex types are the following:
Smooth: A Smooth vertex creates a smooth continuous
curve. The actual curvature at a smooth vertex depends
on the spacing of the adjacent vertices. This is a nonadjustable
vertex, meaning it has no handles with which
you can control the curvature directly.
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