The Construction Tutorial

by Philip Staiger

This Viewlet based tutorial on Amapi 3D v6.1 includes features such as:

  • Drawing a 2D compound profile curve with CAD-like constraints
  • closing an open curve
  • drawing and snapping another perpendicular section curve (circle) to the profile
  • use the Extrusion tool to lathe
  • reducing  the smooth angle limit for creasing sharp edges in the material editor
  • saving the design through the catalog interface
    • Important Notes:
     
    • This viewlet requires that JavaScript and Java be enabled on your Browser.
    • The screenshots were made at 1024x768 screen resolution. For best viewing, it is recommended that you have slightly higher resolution, such as 1280x1024
    • The viewlet is about 1 MB in size. Netscape 4.7 will show the progess of downloading in the status bar. With others you might just have to be patient and keep the faith :-)
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    • If you have a slow connection or prefer to download once and view locally later, get the whole tutorial in a zip > here < (use right-click or equivalent to save the target or link on your local drive).