- Now that I have my initial primary slabs,
I need to increase their size.
As you can see, they don't quite match
to the size of the initial scan.
So I have to make them all bigger
and to do that, I'm going to use my extend tool.
But before I turn on the extend tool,
I'm going to turn on
some of the control point displays for these.
I just want to get an idea of what's going on with the
at least larger surfaces.
So I'll just pick these three.
Display, control points, select okay.
Now, let me just go ahead and hide this distance analysis.
I'm going to go in and double click on my extend,
'cause I'm going to use it a few times.
Pick my first surface and extend it out.
I want to be about 10% larger than the final part
that I'm working on.
Something a little bit bigger
'cause it's always easier to build it bigger
and trim it back.
So in this case, my primary slabs across the top
is a bit larger and as I analyze it,
I can see what's going on with the control points.
I can see back here, there may be something going on.
This may be a styling requirement.
But it's a good way to visualize
exactly what's going on with the shape of that surface.
Select okay.
I'm going to do the same thing with the front.
Enlarge that, bring this up,
and drag this down.
There we go.
Again, making sure that it completely encompasses that part.
If I don't, I can always go back and extend it again.
And just work my way around the part.
You can see as I'm pulling things,
the control points recompile themselves
in order to maintain the initial position
of that first surface.
So there's no deviation really
that's going to happen back to the mesh as measured.
So we'll take this end cap.
Drag this out again,
bring this back.
And we can see that we have that fully encompassed
and do the same thing with this end cap.
And just like that,
all of my primary slabs have been increased in size.
Everything still looks pretty good
and I'm going to turn off those displays.