If you find that it??™s difficult to create a point close to another point, just click a bit farther
away, then drag the point in closer to the desired position.
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9. Press v to open the Set Value dialog box. Choose X for the Axis, and set the value
to 0m. Click OK, and the selected points will be positioned exactly at the origin.
This is important for the upcoming steps.
10. Deselect the two points.
11. From the Multiply tab, select the Lathe tool from the Extend category.
12. Press n to open the Numeric panel, and you??™ll quickly see the tool activate. The
default axis for the lathe is the Y-axis, so that??™s good! You??™ll also see that End Angle
is set to 360 degrees; that??™s also good, because we want to apply the lathed shape
through a full circular sweep. (If you??™d wanted to make a ???half-bowl??? [or
Hollywood Bowl] shape instead of our fruit bowl, you could have set End Angle
to 180 degrees.) The only default setting you need to change is Sides, from 24 to
about 48. This will help smooth out the object, as shown in Figure 8.56.
Figure 8.
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