- [Instructor] If you've kind have
pushed yourself into a corner
and created a really complex spline
for no reason or you have some complex geometry
and you want to simplify it,
it's cool to use the Simplify Spline tool up here.
So I have a spline selected, I'm going to go ahead
and click on that.
And now what it does is it basically
is giving me a preview of a simpler spline
that's pretty close to what I wanted
but it's taken out all of the roughness
and things like that.
I can lower my tolerance and it'll hug even tighter.
But really, I want to reduce the number of spline points
as much as I can.
So I'm going to increase this tolerance
and really just let it go wild just to show
how exaggerated it can get.
But starting with my basic shape I'm going to go
fro 12 points to five points.
Or I can just smooth it out by
adding a little bit of smoothness.
I could also turn it back down
and go back to my original number of points.
So I'm going to get it to about five points.
I'm going to hit smooth to smooth that contour out
and hit OK.
Now what it's going to do is take some of those handles out
because we're simplifying this spline.
So I'm going to say yes.
And now I've got roughly a close spline
of the general shape I had before
but it's much simpler and much easier to use.
Now this is the kind of thing that's going to go
on a case by case basis.
I might not like what I've done
so I can hit control Z and go back to it.
It's not quite the same shape.
I got an exaggerated version of this.
But it follows along generally.
You can try this multiple times.
Try doing different tolerance levels
and going back and forth until you find something
that's closer to what you are looking for.
But don't forget that you have that ability
to simplify your splines.